Low-noise, pulsewidth tunable picosecond to femtosecond pulse generation by spectral filtering of wideband supercontinuum with variable bandwidth arrayed-waveguide grating filters

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 836-837

  Morioka, T ^a   Okamoto, K ^a   Ishii, M ^a   Saruwatari, M ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grating filters; High speed optical techniques; Pulse generators

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

PULSEWIDTH TUNABLE SHORT OPTICAL PULSES; VARIABLE BANDWIDTH ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING FILTERS; WIDEBAND SUPERCONTINUUM FILTERING;

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 0030120944     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960561     Document Type: Article

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