A tunable femtosecond modelocked semiconductor laser for applications in OTDM-systems

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E81-C, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 140-144

  Ludwig, Reinhold ^a   Diez, Stefan ^a   Ehrhardt, Armin ^a   Kuller, Lothar ^a   Pieper, Wilhelm ^a   Weber, Hans G ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

All optical clock recovery; Femtosecond optical pulses; Modelocked semiconductor laser; Optical time division multiplexing; Pump and probe measurements

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL PULSES; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OTDM);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032003861     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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