Hybrid silicon and lithium niobate electro-optical ring modulator

Optica

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 112-118

  Chen, Li ^a   Xu, Qiang ^a   Wood, Michael G ^a   Reano, Ronald M ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optical devices; Integrated optics devices; Lithium niobate; Modulators; Resonators; Waveguide modulators

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LITHIUM; MODULATION; MODULATORS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TUNING; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRO-OPTICAL MODULATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; LINEAR ELECTRO-OPTIC EFFECT; LITHIUM NIOBATE; LOADED QUALITY FACTOR; PLASMA DISPERSION EFFECTS; SECOND-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY; WAVEGUIDE MODULATOR;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 84919688217     PISSN: 23342536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.1.000112     Document Type: Article

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