Performance and scalability of an all-optical clock recovery figure eight laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-57

  Adams, L E ^a   Kintzer, E S ^a   Fujimoto, J G ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LASER MODE LOCKING; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ALL OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY FIGURE EIGHT LASER; LOCKING BANDWIDTH; TIMING JITTER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0029754198     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.475776     Document Type: Article

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