Recent advances in silicon-based passive and active optical interconnects

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2487-2511

  Subbaraman, Harish ^a   Xu, Xiaochuan ^a,b   Hosseini, Amir ^a,b   Zhang, Xingyu ^b   Zhang, Yang ^b   Kwong, David ^b   Chen, Ray T ^b  

^a Building 4 ^*  (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTONIC DEVICES;

LOW COSTS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; PARALLEL TECHNOLOGY; SILICON-BASED; SILICON-BASED STRUCTURES;

SILICON PHOTONICS;

EID: 84922787841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.002487     Document Type: Article

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