Integrated optical ring resonators: Modelling and technologies

Progress in Optical Fibers Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-46

  Ciminelli, Caterina ^a   Dell'Olio, Francesco ^a   Campanella, Carlo E ^a   Passaro, Vittorio M N ^a   Armenise, Mario N ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical cavities; Resonators modelling; Ring resonators

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DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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