Absorption recovery in strongly saturated quantum-well electroabsorption modulators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 676-678

  Højfeldt, Sune ^a   Romstad, Francis ^a   Mørk, Jesper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Absorption recovery; All optical signal processing; Drift diffusion model; Electroabsorption modulator (EAM); InGaAsP; Optical communication; Semiconductor devices; Sweep out dynamics

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ABSORPTION RECOVERY; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATOR; SWEEP OUT DYNAMICS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0037853213     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.809986     Document Type: Article

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