High-Speed Photonic Devices

High-Speed Photonic Devices examines the enabling technologies behind high-speed telecommunication systems. Written by experts in the field, the book explores high-speed transmitters, receivers, electronics, and all-optical techniques. The discussions cover a wide variety of modulators currently in use and in development, such as electroabsorption (EA) modulators, EA modulators integrated with distributed feedback lasers, LiNbO3, III-V compound semiconductor and polymer modulators, high-speed photodetectors and photoreceivers, and all-optical techniques for high speed transmission. The book also considers integrated circuit technology for possible future lightwave communication systems.