High modulation efficiency Gigabit/s modulation of twin-contact high-brightness tapered DBR laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 301-303

  Kwok, C H ^a   Penty, R V ^a   White, I H ^a   Hasler, K H ^b   Sumpf, B ^b   Erbert, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical modulation; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATIOS; DBR LASER; DIRECTLY MODULATED LASERS; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; MODULATION EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; SIGNAL QUALITY; SINGLE-CHIP; TWIN-CONTACT;

DETECTOR CIRCUITS; LASER OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT MODULATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 77955069781     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2009948     Document Type: Article

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