Figure of merit for near-velocity-matched traveling-wave modulators

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 1317-1319

  Chowdhury, Aref ^a   McCaughan, Leon ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRAVELING-WAVE MODULATORS;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODULATORS; SWITCHING;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0013466730     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001317     Document Type: Article

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