• DocumentCode
    3577152
  • Title

    Traveling-wave electrode electroabsorption modulators toward 100 Gb/s

  • Author

    Lew?©n, R. ; Irmscher, S. ; Westergren, U. ; Thyl?©n, L. ; Eriksson, U.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Microelectron. & Inf. Technol., Royal Inst. of Technol., Kista, Sweden
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • Abstract
    We present segmented traveling-wave electroabsorption modulators matched to 50 /spl Omega/. The devices show excellent high frequency performance up to 50 GHz, and exhibit a maximum model-extrapolated 3 dBe bandwidth of 90 GHz. Clear eye openings at 50 Gbit/s are presented.
  • Keywords
    electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; extrapolation; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical waveguide components; 100 Gbit/s; 50 Gbit/s; 50 ohm; 90 GHz; extrapolation; segmented traveling-wave electrode electroabsorption modulators; waveguide modulator design;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-772-5
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1362240