50 Gb/s hybrid silicon traveling-wave electroabsorption modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 5811-5816

  Tang, Yongbo ^a,b,c   Chen, Hui Wen ^a   Jain, Siddharth ^a   Peters, Jonathan D ^a   Westergren, Urban ^b,c   Bowers, John E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b JORCEP   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY;

3 DB BANDWIDTH; DRIVING VOLTAGES; DYNAMIC EXTINCTION RATIO; HYBRID SILICON; MODULATION EFFICIENCY; SILICON BASED PHOTONICS; SMALL SIGNAL; TRANSMISSION RATES; TRAVELING-WAVE ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATOR;

MODULATORS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79953168098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005811     Document Type: Article

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