Low-loss and low-crosstalk 8 × 8 silicon nanowire awg routers fabricated with cmos technology

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 9395-9403

  Wang, Jing ^a,c   Sheng, Zhen ^a   Li, Le ^b   Pang, Albert ^b   Wu, Aimin ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Wang, Xi ^a   Zou, Shichang ^a,b   Qi, Minghao ^c   Gan, Fuwan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (China)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CROSSTALK; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; NANOWIRES; OPTIMIZATION; SILICON;

130 NM CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPREHENSIVE OPTIMIZATIONS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HIGH-SPEED SIGNALS; LOW INSERTION LOSS; ROTATION PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION TESTING;

ROUTERS;

EID: 84899003551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.009395     Document Type: Article

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