Ultrahigh-speed OTDM transmission beyond 1 tera bit-per-second using a femtosecond pulse train

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E85-C, Issue 1 SPEC., 2002, Pages 117-125

  Nakazawa, Masataka ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^b   Tamura, Koichi Robert ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulse generation; Mode locked lasers; NOLM; OTDM transmission; Pulse compression

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; PHASE MODULATION; PULSE GENERATORS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

PULSE COMPRESSORS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036458344     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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