High speed silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 3129-3135

  Liao, Ling ^a   Samara Rubio, Dean ^a   Morse, Michael ^a   Liu, Ansheng ^a   Hodge, Dexter ^a   Rubin, Doron ^b   Keil, Ulrich D ^a   Franck, Thorkild ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON;

BANDWIDTH PERFORMANCE; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICON MODULATORS; WAVEGUIDE MODULATORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 21244477171     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.003129     Document Type: Article

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