100 GHz silicon-organic hybrid modulator

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Alloatti, Luca ^a,e   Palmer, Robert ^a   Diebold, Sebastian ^a   Pahl, Kai Philipp ^a   Chen, Baoquan ^b   Dinu, Raluca ^b   Fournier, Maryse ^c   Fedeli, Jean Marc ^c   Zwick, Thomas ^a   Freude, Wolfgang ^a   Koos, Christian ^a   Leuthold, Juerg ^a,d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institute IHE Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

100GHz; High speed silicon modulator; Nanophotonics; Siliconorganic hybrid

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MODULATION; NANOPHOTONICS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON;

100GHZ; CONDUCTIVE ELECTRONS; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATION; ELECTRONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; SILICON MODULATORS; SILICON-BASED MODULATORS; SILICONORGANIC HYBRID; ORGANIC HYBRIDS;

MODULATORS;

EID: 84901410166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2014.54     Document Type: Article

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