Fundamental limitations of optical resonator based high-speed EO modulators

I.-L. Gheorma, Richard M. Osgood

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 2002 · 94 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

Expressions for the modulation bandwidth and drive voltage for optical resonator-based modulators are presented. A comparison with lumped element Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulators and with traveling wave MZ modulators is presented.

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