Wide temperature range operation of 25-Gb/s 1.3-μm InGaAlAs directly modulated lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1138-1145

  Fukamachi, Toshihiko ^a   Adachi, Koichiro ^b,c   Shinoda, Kazunori ^b,c   Kitatani, Takeshi ^b   Tanaka, Shigehisa ^b   Aoki, Masahiro ^b   Tsuji, Shinji ^b,c  

^a Opnext Japan Inc   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^c PHOTONICS ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION PETRA   (Japan)

Author keywords

1.3 m; Directly modulated laser; distributed feedback (DFB); high bit rate operation; InGaAlAs; uncooled

Indexed keywords

BIT RATES; DIRECTLY MODULATED LASERS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK; INGAALAS; UNCOOLED;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MATERIALS SCIENCE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

EID: 80053942336     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2114644     Document Type: Article

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