40-Gb/s EA modulators with wide temperature operation and negative chirp

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-51

  Billia, Luca ^a   Zhu, Jintian ^b   Ranganath, Tirumala ^b   Bour, David P ^b   Corzine, Scott W ^b   Höfler, Gloria E ^b  

^a Agilent Technol Turin Technol Ctr   (Italy)

^b AGILENT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirp modulation; Electroabsorption; Measurement; Wide temperature operation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TEMPERATURE;

CHIRP MODULATION; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; STAND ALONE MODULATOR; WIDE TEMPERATURE OPERATION;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 12344333626     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.837921     Document Type: Article

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