Notice of Removal: A 12.5 Gb/s electro-absorption-modulator driver using an adaptive compensated push-pull emitter follower and a cascode output switch with dynamic headroom allocation

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2127-2143

  Maxim, Adrian ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b SILICON LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

BiCMOS; Electro absorption modulators; Laser drivers; Optical communications; SiGe; SONET

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CASCADE CONNECTIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FEEDBACK; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SWITCHING;

BICMOS; ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATORS; LASER DRIVERS; SIGE; SONET;

MODULATORS;

EID: 33748356077     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.880589     Document Type: TB

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