Influence of loss on linearity of microring-assisted Mach-Zehnder modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 4178-4188

  Yang, Jianyi ^a,b   Wang, Fan ^a   Jiang, Xiaoqing ^a   Qu, Hongchang ^b   Wang, Minghua ^a   Wang, Yuelin ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

ALL-PASS FILTERS; MICRORING RESONATORS; MODULATION CURVE; MODULATION LINEARITY;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 6344240983     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004178     Document Type: Article

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