Single and multiple optical switches that use freestanding silicon nanowire waveguide couplers

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue JUNE, 2012, Pages

  Akihama, Yuta ^a   Hane, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Microelectromechanical systems; Optical switch; Silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880996907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2012.16     Document Type: Article

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