Polarisation-insensitive travelling-wave electrode electroabsorption (TW-EA) modulator with bandwidth over 50GHz and driving voltage less than 2V

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 1580-1581

  Kawano, K ^a   Kohtoku, M ^a   Ueki, M ^a   Ito, T ^a   Kondoh, S ^a   Noguchi, Y ^a   Hasumi, Y ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electroabsorption modulators

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

TRAVELLING WAVE ELECTRODE ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS (TWEA);

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0031206839     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971036     Document Type: Article

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