25-channel all-optical gate switches realized by integrating silicon photonic crystal nanocavities

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 14263-14274

  Nozaki, Kengo ^a,b   Kuramochi, Eiichi ^a,b   Shinya, Akihiko ^b   Notomi, Masaya ^b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ALL OPTICAL SWITCH; ALL-OPTICAL GATES; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; OPTICAL CROSS-TALK; OPTICAL SIGNALS; SILICON BASED PHOTONICS; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

GATES (TRANSISTOR);

EID: 84902974299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.014263     Document Type: Article

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