Polarization insensitive widely tunable all-optical clock recovery based on AM mode-locking of a fiber ring laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 211-213

  Wang, Lijun ^a   Su, Yikai ^a   Agarwal, Anjali ^a   Kumar, Prem ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RING LASERS;

ALL-OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); FIBER RING LASERS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0034135663     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.823520     Document Type: Article

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