Low power penalty 80 to 10 Gbit/s OTDM demultiplexer using standing-wave enhanced electroabsorption modulator with reduced driving voltage

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 94-95

  Chou, Hsu Feng ^a   Chiu, Yi Jen ^b   Rau, L ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Rangarajan, S ^a   Bowers, J E ^a   Blumenthal, D J ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS (EAM);

MODULATORS;

EID: 0037426894     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20030079     Document Type: Article

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