Low-loss silicon nitride AWG demultiplexer heterogeneously integrated with hybrid III-V/Silicon photodetectors

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 817-823

  Piels, Molly ^a,b   Bauters, Jared F ^a,c   Davenport, Michael L ^d   Heck, Martijn J R ^a,e   Bowers, John E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Aurrion Inc   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Optical receivers; photonic integration; silicon photonics; wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL BANDWIDTH; INGAAS PHOTODIODES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; PHOTONIC CIRCUITS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; SILICON NITRIDE WAVEGUIDES; SILICON PHOTONICS;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SILICON NITRIDE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS;

EID: 84893409307     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2286320     Document Type: Article

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