High-bandwidth balanced photoreceiver suitable for 40-Gb/s RZ-DPSK modulation formats

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-133

  Schramm, Carsten ^a   Bach, Heinz Gunter ^b   Beling, Andreas ^b   Jacumeit, Gerald ^a   Ferber, Sebastian ^b   Ludwig, Reinhold ^b   Ziegler, Reinhold ^a   Mekonnen, Gebre Giorgis ^b   Kunkel, Reinhard ^b   Schmidt, Detlef ^b   Schlaak, Wolfgang ^b   Unterbörsch, Günter ^a  

^a u2t Phonics AG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Balanced photoreceiver; InP; Monolithic integration; Optoelectronic integrated circuit (OEIC); P i n photodiode; Return to zero (RZ) differential phase shift keying (DPSK); Spot size converter; Traveling wave amplifier; Ultrafast devices

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; ELECTROPLATING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFEROMETERS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODIODES; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

BALANCED PHOTORECEIVERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; OPTOELECTRONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (OEIC); P-I-N PHOTODIODES; RETURN-TO-ZERO (RZ)-DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFT KEYING (DPSK); SPOT SIZE CONVERTERS; TRAVELING-WAVE AMPLIFIERS; ULTRAFAST DEVICES;

PHASE SHIFT KEYING;

EID: 20044391869     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2004.841686     Document Type: Article

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