Nanowires and sidewall Bragg gratings in silicon as enabling technologies for microwave photonic filters

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 19624-19633

  Chen, Lawrence R ^a   Li, Jia ^a,b   Spasojevic, Mina ^a   Adams, Rhys ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CEGEP Vanier College ^*

^c CEGEP Vanier College   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; FINITE-IMPULSE RESPONSE; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBERS; MICROWAVE PHOTONIC FILTER (MPFS); MICROWAVE PHOTONIC FILTERS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SIDEWALL BRAGG GRATINGS; SILICON PHOTONIC DEVICES;

BANDPASS FILTERS; BRAGG GRATINGS; NANOWIRES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SILICON; WAVEGUIDE FILTERS; WAVEGUIDES;

MICROWAVE FILTERS;

EID: 84883208691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.019624     Document Type: Article

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