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IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume 48 Number 5, May 2000

Modeling of Broad-Band Traveling-Wave Optical-Intensity Modulators

Page 860.

Abstract:

In this paper, an accurate simulation tool for the electrical and optical response of broad-band traveling-wave optical intensity modulators is presented, which takes into account multisectional electrical transmission lines. This model is applied to analyze a high-speed fully packaged LiNbO₃ Mach-Zehnder interferometer.

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