Picosecond synchronous electro-optic sampling with a jitter-reduced gain-switched laser diode

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 2: Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 1 PART A/B, 1998, Pages

  Sahri, Nabil ^a   Nagatsuma, Tadao ^a   Yaita, Makoto ^a   Shimizu, Naofumi ^a  

^a System Electronics Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback lasers; Electro optic sampling; Jitter

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LASER PULSES; SWITCHING;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LIGHT INJECTION; ELECTROOPTIC SAMPLING; GAIN SWITCHING; JITTER; RESONANT TUNNELING DIODE; SYNCHRONOUS SAMPLING SCHEME;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031681156     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.37.l39     Document Type: Article

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