A high-speed, tunable silicon photonic ring modulator integrated with ultra-efficient active wavelength control

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 12628-12633

  Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Chang, Eric ^b   Amberg, Philip ^a   Shubin, Ivan ^a   Lexau, Jon ^b   Liu, Frankie ^b   Thacker, Hiren ^a   Djordjevic, Stevan S ^a   Lin, Shiyun ^a   Luo, Ying ^a   Yao, Jin ^a   Lee, Jin Hyoung ^a   Raj, Kannan ^a   Ho, Ron ^b   Cunningham, John E ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^a  

^a Hunghes Network System   (United States)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODULATORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; TUNING;

CONTROLLER ENERGY; DRIVER CIRCUIT; SILICON PHOTONICS; SUBSTRATE REMOVAL; ULTRA-EFFICIENT; WAVELENGTH CONTROL; WAVELENGTH LOCKING; WAVELENGTH TRACKING;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84901246764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.012628     Document Type: Article

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