Fabrication and packaging of 40-Gb/s AlGaInAs multiple-quantum-well electroabsorption modulated lasers based on identical epitaxial layer scheme

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1464-1471

  Sun, Changzheng ^a   Xiong, Bing ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Cai, Pengfei ^a   Xu, Jianming ^a   Huang, Jin ^a   Yuan, He ^a   Zhou, Qiwe ^a   Luo, Yi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

40 Gb s; Distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser; Electroabsorption modulator (EAM); Monolithic integration; Packaging technology

Indexed keywords

CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; EPITAXIAL LAYERS; FABRICATION; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LASERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MODULATION; MODULATORS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

ALGAINAS; ELECTRO ABSORPTION (EA) MODULATORS; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATED (EML) LASERS; GROUNDED COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE (GCPW); HIGH SPEEDS; IDENTICAL EPITAXIAL LAYER SCHEME; INTEGRATION SCHEMES; MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELL (MQM); NON-RETURN TO ZERO (NRZ); OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PLATES; PLANARIZATION TECHNIQUE; RESIDUAL REFLECTIONS; SELF ALIGNED (SA); SMALL SIGNAL MODULATION BANDWIDTH; SMALL SIGNAL MODULATION RESPONSE; TRANSMISSION LINE (TL);

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 46349098374     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.922164     Document Type: Article

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