A low-power, high-speed, 9-channel germaniumsilicon electro-absorption modulator array integrated with digital CMOS driver and wavelength multiplexer

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 12289-12295

  Krishnamoorthy, A V ^a   Zheng, X ^a   Feng, D ^c   Lexau, J ^b   Buckwalter, J F ^a   Thacker, H D ^a   Liu, F ^b   Luo, Y ^a   Chang, E ^b   Amberg, P ^a   Shubin, I ^a   Djordjevic, S S ^a   Lee, J H ^a   Lin, S ^a   Liang, H ^c   Abed, A ^c   Shafiiha, R ^c   Raj, K ^a   Ho, R ^b   Asghari, M ^c   Cunningham, J E ^a   more..

^a Oracle Netra Systems and Networking   (United States)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATORS; MULTIPLEXING; SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS;

CMOS DRIVER; DIGITAL CMOS; ELECTRO-ABSORPTION; LOW POWER; PEAK-TO-PEAK VOLTAGES; SINGLE-CHANNEL; WAVEGUIDE MODULATOR; WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXERS;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84901263800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.012289     Document Type: Article

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