Monolithic silicon photonic integrated circuits for compact 100 +Gb/s coherent optical receivers and transmitters

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Dong, Po ^a   Liu, Xiang ^a   Chandrasekhar, S ^a   Buhl, Lawrence L ^a   Aroca, Ricardo ^a   Chen, Young Kai ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent communications; Coherent receivers; Optoelectronics; Photonic integrated circuits; Silicon photonics; Waveguide modulators

Indexed keywords

COHERENT COMMUNICATION; COHERENT RECEIVERS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICON PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDE MODULATOR;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT MODULATORS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY; PHOTONICS; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SILICON; SILICON DETECTORS; SILICON NITRIDE; SILICON WAFERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TRANSMITTERS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84892596558     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2295181     Document Type: Article

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