High-speed mixed digital-to-analog circuit board for accurate control of wavelength tunable lasers for fiber-optic communications

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1222-1228

  Biernacki, Paul D ^a,c,d   Frankel, Michael Y ^b   Gingerich, Michael E ^a   Matthews, Paul J ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Signal Integrity   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FIBER OPTICS; LASER TUNING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PROM; TABLE LOOKUP; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DIFFERENTIAL LOGIC CONTROL SIGNAL; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR; HIGH SPEED CIRCUIT; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE LASERS;

DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION;

EID: 0032666645     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.774260     Document Type: Article

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