Analog Characterization of Low-Voltage MQW Traveling-Wave Electroabsorption Modulators
- Title
- Analog Characterization of Low-Voltage MQW Traveling-Wave Electroabsorption Modulators
- Author
- 심종인
- Keywords
- Analog optical link; electroabsorption modulator (EAM); link gain, multiple quantum wells (MQWs); spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR); traveling wave (TW)
- Issue Date
- 2003-12
- Publisher
- IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, v. 21, issue. 12, page. 3011-3019
- Abstract
- In this paper, high-speed traveling-wave electroabsorption modulators (TW-EAMs) with strain-compensated InGaAsP multiple quantum wells as the absorption region for analog optical links have been developed. A record-high slope efficiency of 4/V, which. is equivalent to a Mach-Zehnder modulator with a V-pi of 0.37 V and a high extinction ratio of > 30 dB/V have been measured. A detailed study of the nonlinearity and the spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) is presented. By optimizing the bias voltage and the input optical power, the SFDR can be improved by 10-30 dB. After minimizing the third-order distortion, an SFDR as high as 128 dB - HZ(4/5) is achieved at 10 GHz. A simple link measurement was made using this EAM and an erbium-doped fiber amplifier and a 50-Omega terminated photodetector. At 10 GHz, a link gain of 1 dB is achieved at a detected photocurrent of 7.6 mA with higher gains at lower frequencies. The dependence of link gains on bias voltage, input optical, and radio frequency powers are investigated in detail.
- URI
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1263718?arnumber=1263718&SID=EBSCO:edseeehttps://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/156720
- ISSN
- 0733-8724
- DOI
- 10.1109/JLT.2003.819799
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- COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND CONVERGENCE TECHNOLOGY[E](과학기술융합대학) > PHOTONICS AND NANOELECTRONICS(나노광전자학과) > Articles
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