Sub-100 μm photonic crystal si optical modulators: Spectral, athermal, and high-speed performance

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Nguyen, Hong C ^a,b   Yazawa, Naoya ^a   Hashimoto, Satoshi ^a   Otsuka, Shota ^a   Baba, Toshihiko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YK Building 2F   (Japan)

Author keywords

optical modulators; Photonic crystal waveguides; silicon photonics; Slow light

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; HIGH-SPEED PERFORMANCE; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; RECENT PROGRESS; SILICON PHOTONICS; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONICS; SLOW LIGHT;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 84882779740     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2265193     Document Type: Article

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