Spectral shift and broadening of DFB lasers under direct modulation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1709-1711

  Zadok, Avi ^b   Shalom, Hamutal ^b   Tur, Moshe ^a,b   Cornwell, W D ^c   Andonovic, Ivan ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed feedback lasers; Optical communication; Optical modulation demodulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMODULATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

SPECTRAL BROADENING; SPECTRAL SHIFT; THERMAL CHIRP;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 0032289085     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.730477     Document Type: Article

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