Title :
High-speed operation of travelling-wave electroabsorption modulator
Author :
Kaman, V. ; Zhang, S.Z. ; Keating, A.J. ; Bowers, J.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
fDate :
6/10/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors describe the high-speed operation of an electroabsorption modulator with travelling-wave electrodes. The modulator exhibited good performance over a broad bandwidth in 10 and 30 Gbit/s transmission experiments. The polarisation-insensitive electroabsorption modulator required a low switching voltage of ~1.6 V p-p
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; electrodes; high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; -1.6 V; 10 Gbit/s; 30 Gbit/s; Gbit/s transmission; broad bandwidth; good performance; high-speed operation; low switching voltage; polarisation-insensitive electroabsorption modulator; travelling-wave electroabsorption modulator; travelling-wave electrodes;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19990671
