Generation of ultrahigh-speed tunable-rate optical pulses using strongly gain-coupled dual-wavelength DFB laser diodes

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 518-520

  Hui, R ^a   Zhu, B ^a   Demarest, K ^a   Allen, C ^a   Hong, Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL PULSE TRAIN;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032678846     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.759384     Document Type: Article

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