HIGH-SPEED MQW ELECTROABSORPTION OPTICAL MODULATORS INTEGRATED WITH LOW-LOSS WAVE-GUIDES

被引:18
作者
IDO, T
SANO, H
SUZUKI, M
TANAKA, S
INOUE, H
机构
[1] Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Kokubunji
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10.1109/68.345912
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
An MQW electro-absorption optical modulator integrated with low-loss input and output waveguides is proposed to achieve larger modulation bandwidth with a shorter modulation region, keeping the total device length large enough for easy fabrication and packaging. A fabricated 1-mm-long modulator with a modulation-region length of 50 mum shows a low insertion loss (7 dB), low driving voltage (V10 dB = 2.6 V), and large modulation bandwidth (f3 dB = 40 GHz) extrapolated from measurements up to 20 GHz. This modulator is suitable for application to ultra-high-speed fiber transmission systems.
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页码:170 / 172
页数:3
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