High RF carrier frequency modulation in silicon resonators by coupling adjacent free-spectral-range modes

Optics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1799-1802

  Tzuang, Lawrence D ^a   Soltani, Mohammad ^a   Lee, Yoon Ho Daniel ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONICS; RESONANCE; SILICON;

ANALOG COMMUNICATIONS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; LOWER-POWER CONSUMPTION; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; PHOTONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; RESONANCE LINEWIDTH; SILICON RESONATORS; SILICON RING RESONATOR;

MODULATION;

EID: 84897991442     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.001799     Document Type: Article

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