On the various time constants of wavelength changes of a DFB laser under direct modulation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1816-1822

  Shalom, Hamutal ^b   Zadok, Avi ^b,d   Tur, Moshe ^a,b,d,e,f,g   Legg, Peter J ^c   Cornwell, W D ^c   Andonovic, Ivan ^a,c,g  

^a IEEE

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback lasers; Optical communications; Optical modulation demodulation; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DIRECT MODULATED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0032186782     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.720212     Document Type: Article

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