MUltiwavelength DFB laser arrays with integrated combiner and optical amplifier for WDM optical networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 584-596

  Zah, Chung En ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Amersfoort, Martin R ^a,b,g   Pathak, Bhadresh N ^a,h,i   Favire Jr , Frederick J ^a,i   Lin, Paul S D ^a,i,j   Andreadakis, Nicholas C ^a   Rajhel, Andrew W ^a   Bhat, Rajaram ^a,b   Caneau, C ^a   Koza, M A ^a   Gamelin, John ^a  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Optoelectronic Integration Research   (United States)

^f OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^g Optical Society of America ^*

^h NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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Author keywords

Bit error rate; Crosstalk; Distributed feedback lasers; Optical fiber communication; Photonic integrated circuit; Semiconductor laser arrays; Semiconductor optical amplifier; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; CROSSTALK; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CROSS GAIN MODULATION (XGM);

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0031109228     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.605710     Document Type: Article

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