Spur-Free Dynamic Range Measurements of a Fiber Optic Link with Traveling Wave Linearized Directional Coupler Modulators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 273-275

  Schaffner, James H ^a   Lam, Juan F ^a   Gaeta, Celestino J ^a   Tangonan, Gregory L ^a   Joyce, Robert L ^a   Farwell, Mark L ^b   Chang, William S C ^b  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GAIN CONTROL; LIGHT MODULATION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SOLID STATE LASERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRAVELING WAVE ANTENNAS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK (DFB) LASERS; SPUR FREE DYNAMIC RANGE (SFDR);

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 0028375329     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.275448     Document Type: Article

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