Large-scale integration of wavelength-addressable all-optical memories on a photonic crystal chip

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 474-481

  Kuramochi, Eiichi ^a,b   Nozaki, Kengo ^a,b   Shinya, Akihiko ^a,b   Takeda, Koji ^a   Sato, Tomonari ^a   Matsuo, Shinji ^a   Taniyama, Hideaki ^a,b   Sumikura, Hisashi ^a,b   Notomi, Masaya ^a,b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK-ON-CHIP; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY; VLSI CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDE FILTERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ALL-OPTICAL MEMORY; DENSE INTEGRATION; INTEGRATION SCHEME; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY; SINGLE CHIPS;

NANOPHOTONICS;

EID: 84901689094     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.93     Document Type: Article

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