Integrated InGaAlAs/InP laser-modulator using an identical multiple quantum well active layer

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5729, Issue , 2005, Pages 160-169

  Saravanan, Brem Kumar ^a,b   Hanke, Christian ^a   Knödl, Thomas ^a   Peschke, Martin ^a,b   Macaluso, Roberta ^a   Stegmüller, Bernhard ^a  

^a INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital communication; Distributed feedback laser; Electroabsorption modulator; Frequency chirp; Interferometry; Monolithic integration; Optical data transmission; Time resolved spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASER; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATOR; FREQUENCY CHIRP; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; OPTICAL DATA TRANSMISSION; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 21844456307     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.590787     Document Type: Conference Paper

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