Enhancement in electroabsorption waveguide modulator slope efficiency at high optical power

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 961-963

  Welstand, R B ^a   Pappert, S A ^b   Nichols, D T ^c   Lembo, L J ^c   Liu, Y Z ^d   Yu, P K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Naval Command   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Fermionics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroabsorption modulation; Semiconductor device thermal factors

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE;

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATION;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0032121711     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.681284     Document Type: Article

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