Self-seeding of Fabry-Perot laser diode for generating wavelength-tunable chirp-compensated single-mode pulses with high-sidemode suppression ratio

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1441-1443

  Li, Shenping ^a   Chiang, K S ^a   Gambling, W A ^a   Liu, Y ^b   Zhang, L ^b   Bennion, I ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PULSES; PHOTODETECTORS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

CHIRP COMPENSATION; DISPERSION COMPENSATING FIBER; FABRY-PEROT LASER DIODE; GIRES-TOURNOIS INTERFEROMETER; OPTICAL SPECTRUM ANALYZER; SIDEMODE SUPPRESSION RATIO;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0034313940     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.887644     Document Type: Article

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