Misalignment distortion penalty in moderate-speed directly modulated WDM systems and its reduction using fiber Bragg grating lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1649-1651

  Liu, Karen ^a,b   Wang, Weyl K ^a,b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Tellabs   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg grating; Laser stability; Optical communication; Optical modulation demodulation; Optical transmitter; Semiconductor laser; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATING LASERS; LASER STABILITY;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031338729     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.643300     Document Type: Article

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