Abstract
Lightwave systems technology has advanced dramatically over the past decade with recent experiments achieving a system capacity in excess of 1 Tbit/s km at 11 Gbit/s.1 Despite significant advances in GaAs FET technologies and heterojunction bipolar transistors, silicon bipolar technology has lately emerged as a promising low cost, high performance technology for multi-Gbit/s lightwave communication systems.
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