Compact digitally tunable laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 182-184

  Van Thourhout, D ^a   Zhang, L ^b   Yang, W ^b   Miller, B I ^b   Sauer, N J ^b   Doerr, C R ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG); Digitally tunable laser; Multifrequency laser; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ROUTERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING; MULTIFREQUENCY LASER; WAVEGUIDE GRATING ROUTERS; WAVELENGTH CHANNELS;

LASER TUNING;

EID: 0037322210     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.806863     Document Type: Article

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