Demonstration of low power penalty of silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator in long-haul transmission

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 27562-27568

  Yi, Huaxiang ^a   Long, Qifeng ^a   Tan, Wei ^a   Li, Li ^a   Wang, Xingjun ^a   Zhou, Zhiping ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM NIOBATE; LONG DISTANCE TRANSMISSION; LONG-HAUL TRANSMISSION; LOW POWER; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; NEGATIVE CHIRP; POWER PENALTY; SILICON MODULATORS; SYSTEM-LEVEL ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; SILICON;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; NIOBIUM; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OXIDES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84870625064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027562     Document Type: Article

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