A discretely tunable mode-locked laser with 32 wavelengths and 100-GHz channel spacing using an arrayed waveguide grating

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1227-1229

  Tamura, K R ^a,b   Inoue, Y ^a,c   Sato, K ^a,b   Komukai, T ^a,b   Sugita, A ^a,c   Nakazawa, M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laser tuning; Mode locked lasers; Optical fiber communication; Optical pulse generation; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 0035503123     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.959372     Document Type: Article

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