Magneto-optical disk drive technology using multiple fiber–coupled flying optical heads. Part II. Laser noise considerations

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 884-894

  Wilde, Jeffrey P ^a,b   Tselikov, Alexander A ^a,b,c   Gray, George R ^a,b,d   Zhang, Yongwei ^a,b,c   Gangopadhyay, Shubhagat ^a,b,e  

^a SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Capella Photonics   (United States)

^c Iolon Inc   (United States)

^d Yafo Networks Inc   (United States)

^e ADC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL RECORDING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

MODE PARTITION NOISES (MPN); OPTICAL HEADS; RECORDING HEADS;

MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0036300787     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.000884     Document Type: Article

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