Widely tunable separate absorption and modulation wavelength converter with integrated microwave termination

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 938-944

  Dummer, Matthew M ^a   Sysak, Matthew N ^a   Tauke Pedretti, Anna ^a   Raring, James W ^a   Klamkin, Jonathan ^a   Coldren, Larry A ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroabsorption; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; P i n photodiodes; Sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector (SG DBR); Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); Traveling wave devices; Wavelength conversion (WC); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; PHOTODIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

INTEGRATED MICROWAVE TERMINATION; MODULATION WAVELENGTH CONVERTER; OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS; TRAVELING WAVE DEVICES;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 42649128068     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.915202     Document Type: Article

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