40-ghz bandwidth ingaas/lnaias multiple quantum well optical intensity modulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 2030-2035

  Mitomi, Osamu ^a   Kotaka, Isamu ^a   Wakita, Koichi ^a   Nojima, Shunji ^a   Kawano, Kenji ^a   Kawamura, Yuichi ^a   Asai, Hiromitsu ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

External optical modulator; High speed modulation; Multiple quantum well (MQW) optical device

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975598838     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.31.002030     Document Type: Article

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