Microwave CAD circuit modeling of a traveling-wave electroabsorption modulator

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 1117-1128

  Lewén, Robert ^a,b   Irmscher, Stefan ^a   Eriksson, Urban ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Optillion AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguides (CPWs); Electroabsorption; Intensity modulation; Optical modulation; Skin effect; Substrate losses; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0037396360     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.809669     Document Type: Article

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