Performance of MQW InP Mach-Zehnder modulators for advanced modulation formats

1 January 2005

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 2
https://doi.org/10.1109/ofc.2005.192658

Abstract

The performance of InP modulators is investigated for duobinary and differential phase-shift key transmission. We demonstrate that despite nonlinear phase-voltage characteristics and residual absorption, InP devices give excellent performance comparable to ideal Mach-Zehnder modulators.

Keywords

QUANTUM WELL DEVICES
INDIUM PHOSPHIDE
NONLINEAR OPTICS
OPTICAL MODULATION
VOLTAGE
OPTICAL REFRACTION
OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL
ELECTRODES
PHASE MODULATION
ABSORPTION

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