Abbreviation Glossary
| AC | Alternating Current |
| ACPR | Adjacent Channel Power Ratio |
| ADP | Ammonium dihydrogen phosphate |
| ADS | Advanced Design System |
| AlGaAs | Aluminum gallium arsenide |
| AM | Amplitude Modulation |
| AM-DD | Amplitude Modulation — Direct Detection |
| ASE | Amplified Spontaneous Emission |
| BER | Bit Error Rate |
| BH | Buried Heterostructure |
| BiCMOS | Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| BILBAO | Borne d’infrastructures large bande avec accès optique (Wideband infrastructure base with optical access) |
| CAD | Computer-aided design |
| CdS | Cadmium sulfide |
| CEA-Leti | Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (Atomic energy commission) |
| CMOS | Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor |
| CNAM | Conservatoire national des arts et métiers |
| CPW | Coplanar waveguide |
| DBR | Distributed Bragg reflector |
| DC | Direct current |
| DD-MZM | Dual drive-MZM |
| DFA | Doped fiber amplifier |
| DFB | Distributed feedback laser |
| DFT | Discrete Fourier transform |
| E/O | Electric/optic |
| EAM | Electro-absorption modulator |
| EDFA | Erbium-doped fiber amplifier |
| EEL | Edge emitting laser |
| EML | Electro-absorption modulated laser |
| EMT | Electromagnetic transverse |
| EOM | Electro-optic modulator |
| ER | Extinction ratio |
| ESYCOM | Equipe systèmes de communications et microsystèmes (Communications and microsystems team) |
| ET | Electric transverse |
| EVM | Error vector magnitude |
| FCC | Federal communications commission |
| FET | Field-effect transistor |
| FKE | Franz-Keldysh effect |
| FT R&D | France Telecom Research & Development |
| GaAs | Galium arsenide ... |
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