Widely tunable laser technologies: Meeting the needs for tomorrow's networks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4652, Issue , 2002, Pages 186-196

  Day, Timothy ^a   Thompson, Craig ^a   Lee, Joseph ^a  

^a New Focus Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic add drop; External cavity diode lasers; Network channel reconfiguration; Real time channel provisioning; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; INVESTMENTS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASER; EXTERNAL CAVITY DIODE LASER; TUNABLE LASER; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

LASER TUNING;

EID: 0036404673     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.469574     Document Type: Article

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