Title :
Monolithic dual-quantum-well 10 Gb/s Mach-Zehnder transmitter
Author :
Tauke-Pedretti, Anna ; Sysak, Matthew N. ; Barton, Jonathon S. ; Raring, James W. ; Dummer, Matthew ; Coldren, Larry A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng. & Mater., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA
Abstract :
A 10 Gb/s transmitter composed of a sampled-grating DBR (SGDBR) laser and Mach-Zehnder modulator was fabricated on a dual-quantum-well integration platform. The device exhibited error free operation and negative chirp
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; chirp modulation; diffraction gratings; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; optical fabrication; optical modulation; optical transmitters; quantum well devices; 10 Gbit/s; Mach-Zehnder modulator; dual-quantum-well Mach-Zehnder transmitter; negative chirp; sampled-grating DBR laser; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Chirp modulation; Electrodes; Laser tuning; Optical fiber devices; Optical transmitters; Optical waveguides; Quantum well lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9217-5
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548051
