High performance InP ring resonator for new generation monolithically integrated optical gyroscopes

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 556-564

  Ciminelli, Caterina ^a   Dell'Olio, Francesco ^a   Armenise, Mario N ^a   Soares, Francisco M ^b   Passenberg, Wolfgang ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SHOT NOISE; SILICA;

INP; INP TECHNOLOGY; METAL-ORGANIC; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; NOISE-LIMITED RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; Q-FACTORS; Q-VALUES; QUALITY FACTORS; RING RESONATOR; SILICA-ON-SILICON; WAVEGUIDE LOSS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 84928170882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.000556     Document Type: Article

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