Chirp and dispersion tolerance of a single-drive push-pull silicon modulator at 28 Gb/s

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 936-938

  Chen, Long ^a   Dong, Po ^a   Chen, Young Kai ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirp; dispersion tolerance; silicon modulators

Indexed keywords

CHIRP; CHIRP PARAMETER; DISPERSION TOLERANCE; FIBER DISPERSION; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MEASURED DATA; MODULATION EFFICIENCY; POWER IMBALANCE; SILICON MODULATORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

CHIRP MODULATION;

EID: 84860499262     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2191149     Document Type: Article

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