Linearity of silicon ring modulators for analog optical links

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 13115-13122

  Ayazi, Ali ^a   Baehr Jones, Tom ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Lim, Andy Eu Jin ^b   Hochberg, Michael ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL LINKS;

ANALOG LINKS; ANALOG OPTICAL LINK; CARRIER DEPLETION; NON-LINEARITY; P-N JUNCTION; SILICON RING; SPURIOUS FREE DYNAMIC RANGE; WAVELENGTH RESPONSE;

MODULATORS;

EID: 84863746625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013115     Document Type: Article

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