Mid-infrared Suspended Membrane Waveguide and Ring Resonator on Silicon-on-Insulator

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1510-1519

  Cheng, Zhenzhou ^a   Chen, Xia ^a   Wong, Chi Yan ^a   Xu, Ke ^a   Tsang, Hon Ki ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

dispersion; Mid IR devices; nonlinear; ring resonator; silicon on insulator; suspended membrane waveguide

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008522386     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2210700     Document Type: Article

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