Ultra-Compact Silicon Photonic 512 × 512 25 GHz Arrayed Waveguide Grating Router

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Cheung, Stanley ^a   Su, Tiehui ^a   Okamoto, Katsunari ^a   Yoo, S J B ^b  

^a Davis   (United States)

^b Aidi Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

data centers; Integrated optical devices; optical interconnects; waveguide filters; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; FABRICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDES; CHANNEL SPACINGS; DATA CENTERS; INTEGRATED OPTICAL DEVICES; MEASURED CHANNEL; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR PLATFORMS; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

EID: 84958181344     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2295879     Document Type: Article

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