Role of thermal chirp in reducing interferometric noise in fiber-optic systems driven by directly modulated DFB lasers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 154-160

  Cornwell, W D ^a   Andonovic, Ivan ^a   Zadok, A ^b   Tur, Moshe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; THERMAL NOISE;

OPTICAL NOISE; THERMAL CHIRP;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0033879029     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.822787     Document Type: Article

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