Extremely Low V L Slow Light Photonic Crystal Modulator with GHz Bandwidth
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چکیده
We demonstrated a GHz bandwidth slow light photonic crystal waveguide based PIN Mach-Zehnder modulator with V ×L as low as 0.0464 V mm, which is the lowest figure of merit reported so far. Keywords-slow light; photonic crystal; Mach-Zehnder modulator
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