Ultracompact Monolithic Integration of Balanced, Polarization Diversity Photodetectors for Coherent Lightwave Receivers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 1238-1240

  Hawkins, R J ^c   Scherer, A ^a   Gozdz, A S ^a   Caneau, C ^a   Andreadakis, N C ^a   Shah, V ^a   Curtis, L ^a   Soole, J B D ^a   Song, J I ^a  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE;

INSERTION LOSS; PHOTORESPONSE; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY PHOTODETECTORS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0026946809     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.166954     Document Type: Article

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