Antenna-coupled silicon-organic hybrid integrated photonic crystal modulator for broadband electromagnetic wave detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9362, Issue January, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Xingyu ^a   Hosseini, Amir ^b   Subbaraman, Harish ^b   Wang, Shiyi ^c   Zhan, Qiwen ^c   Luo, Jingdong ^d   Jen, Alex K ^d   Chung, Chi Jui ^a   Yan, Hai ^a   Pan, Zeyu ^a   Nelson, Robert L ^e   Lee, Charles Y ^e   Chen, Ray T ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b OMEGA OPTICS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas; Electromagnetic fields; Electrooptic modulators; Integrated optics; Microwave photonics; Optical sensors; Photonic crystals; Polymers; Silicon photonics; Slow light

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FILLED POLYMERS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MODULATION; MODULATORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; POLYMERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SILICON; SLOT ANTENNAS; SLOW LIGHT; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WAVEGUIDES;

BROADBAND CHARACTERISTICS; BROADBAND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRO OPTIC COEFFICIENT; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SENSORS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SILICON PHOTONICS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 84937153541     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2076534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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