Very-low-voltage operation of Mach-Zehnder interferometer-type electroabsorption modulator using asymmetric couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 14610-14616

  Ueda, Y ^a   Fujisawa, T ^a   Kanazawa, S ^a   Kobayashi, W ^a   Takahata, K ^a   Ishii, H ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION;

ASYMMETRIC COUPLERS; CMOS DRIVER; LOW VOLTAGES; MACH-ZEHNDER; OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS;

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS;

EID: 84902977478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.014610     Document Type: Article

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