Polymer-based hybrid-integrated photonic devices for silicon on-chip modulation and board-level optical interconnects

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Xingyu ^a   Hosseini, Amir ^b   Lin, Xiaohui ^a   Subbaraman, Harish ^b   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b OMEGA OPTICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulators; Optical interconnection; Photonic crystals; Polymers

Indexed keywords

BOARD-TO-BOARD OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; BROADBAND DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; INTEGRATION CAPABILITY; NONLINEAR CHROMOPHORES; OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORK SYSTEMS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; ROLL-TO-ROLL FABRICATION;

CHROMOPHORES; FABRICATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; POLYMERS; SILICON;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 84880937067     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2268386     Document Type: Article

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