A 42.7-Gb/s integrated balanced optical front end with record sensitivity

Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, Technical Digest Series

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages PD39.1-PD39.3

  Sinsky, J H ^a   Adamiecki, A ^a   Gnauck, A ^a   Burrus, C ^a   Leuthold, J ^a   Wohlgemuth, O ^b   Umbach, A ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c U2t Photonics AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; High speed optical techniques; Integrated optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical recording; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Photodiodes

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; OPTICAL RECORDING; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS; PHOTODIODES;

DELAY INTERFEROMETER; HIGH SPEED OPTICAL TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL FRONT-ENDS; OPTICAL NOISE; OPTICAL PRE-AMPLIFICATION; RZ-DPSK;

OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84947929172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OFC.2003.316057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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