An equivalent circuit model of the traveling wave electrode for carrier-depletion-based silicon optical modulators

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1602-1609

  Yu, Hui ^a   Bogaerts, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Equivalent circuits; microwave propagation; optical modulation; p n junctions; transmission lines

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; MICROWAVE PROPAGATION; MODULATION BANDWIDTH; P-N JUNCTION; PARTIAL CAPACITANCE; SILICON MODULATORS; TRAVELING WAVE ELECTRODES;

BANDWIDTH; CIRCUIT THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC LINES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

EID: 84859712189     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2188779     Document Type: Article

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