High-speed silicon mach-zehnder optical modulator with large optical bandwidth

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 966-970

  Yang, Lin ^a   Ding, Jianfeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

Integrated optoelectronics; optical modulation

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC EXTINCTION RATIO; FIBER-TO-FIBER LOSS; MACH-ZEHNDER OPTICAL MODULATOR; NON-UNIFORM DOPING; OPTICAL BAND WIDTH; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; STATIC AND DYNAMIC RESPONSE; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; SILICON; WAVELENGTH;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84893349890     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2295401     Document Type: Article

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