Small-chirp 40-Gbps electroabsorption modulator with novel tensile-strained asymmetric quantum-well absorption layer

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 813-819

  Miyazaki, Yasunori ^a   Tada, Hitoshi ^a   Tokizaki, Shin Ya ^a   Takagi, Kazuhisa ^a   Aoyagi, Toshitaka ^a   Mitsui, Yasuo ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chirp modulation; Electroabsorption; Measurement; Quantum confined Stark effect

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHT MODULATION; MASKS; QUENCHING; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ELECTROABSORPTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0037591568     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.811593     Document Type: Article

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