Broad-range tunable wavelength conversion of high-bit-rate signals using super structure grating distributed Bragg reflector lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 463-469

  Yasaka, Hiroshi ^a,b,c,d,e   Ishii, Hiroyuki ^a   Takahata, Kiyoto ^a   Oe, Kunishige ^a,b   Yoshikuni, Yuzo ^a,b   Tsuchiya, Haruhiko ^a,b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b IEEE

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BIT ERROR RATE MEASUREMENT; CARRIER DENSITY MODULATION; CROSS GAIN TECHNIQUES; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASERS; OPTICAL GAIN SATURATION; SUPER STRUCTURE GRATING DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASERS; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0030104456     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.485398     Document Type: Article

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