High speed, high current driver for operation with low ohmic load

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 904-906

  Vainshtein, S N ^a,b   Kostamovaara, J T ^a   Kilpela A J ^a   Maatta K E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Pulse generators; Semiconductor junction lasers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRANSISTORS;

GAIN SWITCHING; OPTICAL PULSE;

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 0031559320     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970564     Document Type: Article

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