Taking silicon photonics modulators to a higher performance level: state-of-the-art and a review of new technologies

A Rahim, A Hermans, B Wohlfeil, D Petousi… - Advanced …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical links are moving to higher and higher transmission speeds while shrinking to shorter
and shorter ranges where optical links are envisaged even at the chip scale. The scaling in …

High-speed electrooptic modulator characterization using optical spectrum analysis

Y Shi, L Yan, AE Willner - Journal of lightwave technology, 2003 - opg.optica.org
This paper presents our latest studies on high-speed electrooptic modulator characterization
using the optical spectrum analysis method. Several new characterization techniques are …

Laser communication transmitter and receiver design

DO Caplan - Journal of Optical and Fiber Communications Reports, 2007 - Springer
Free-space laser communication systems have the potential to provide flexible, high-speed
connectivity suitable for long-haul intersatellite and deep-space links. For these applications …

An all-optical modulator based on a graphene–plasmonic slot waveguide at 1550 nm

F Sun, L ** of Mach-Zehnder
modulators based on direct measurements of the output spectrum. This method is …

Transmission performance of 10-Gb/s 1550-nm transmitters using semiconductor optical amplifiers as booster amplifiers

Y Kim, H Jang, Y Kim, J Lee, D Jang… - Journal of lightwave …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have demonstrated the transmission performance of 10-Gb/s transmitters based on
LiNbO 3 modulator using semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) as booster amplifiers …

Chirp characterization of external modulators with finite extinction ratio using linear optical sampling

T Dennis, PA Williams - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a network monitoring technique for the frequency chir** of external
modulators based on linear optical sampling. We present¿-parameter waveforms of digital …