11-Gb/s 80-km transmission performance of zero-chirp silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Goi, Kazuhiro ^a   Oda, Kenji ^a   Kusaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Terada, Yoshihiro ^b   Ogawa, Kensuke ^a   Liow, Tsung Yang ^a   Tu, Xiaoguang ^a   Lo, Guo LoQiang ^b   Kwong, Dim Lee ^b  

^a FUJIKURA LTD   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION TOLERANCE; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; ON-OFF KEYING; POWER PENALTY; RETURN-TO-ZERO; SILICON MODULATORS; TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE;

DISPERSIONS; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICON;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 84871252356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00B350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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