Electroabsorption modulators for high speed ultrashort pulse generation and processing

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E81-C, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 169-174

  Guy, Martin ^a   Chernikov, Stanislav ^a   Taylor, Roy ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demultiplexing; Dispersion mapping; Electroabsorption modulators; Nonlinear pulse compression

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; NONLINEAR PULSE COMPRESSION;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0032001426     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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