Silicon nitride microwave photonic circuits

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 22937-22961

  Roeloffzen, Chris G H ^a,b   Zhuang, Leimeng ^a   Taddei, Caterina ^a   Leinse, Arne ^b   Heideman, René G ^b   Van Dijk, Paulus W L ^b   Oldenbeuving, Ruud M ^b   Marpaung, David A I ^c   Burla, Maurizio ^d   Boller, Klaus J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b LIONIX BV   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d INRS EMT   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; MICROWAVE POLARIZATIONS; PLATFORM INTEGRATIONS; RING-RESONATOR FILTERS; SPURIOUS FREE DYNAMIC RANGE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND PULSE; WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE FILTERS; PULSE GENERATORS; SILICON NITRIDE; WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 84884539459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.022937     Document Type: Article

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