Supercontinuum lightwave source generating 50 GHz spaced optical ITU grid seamlessly over S-, C- and L-bands

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 544-546

  Mori, K ^a   Sato, K ^a   Takara, H ^a   Ohara, T ^a  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

SUPERCONTINUUM (SC) LIGHTWAVE SOURCES;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 0037456881     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20030344     Document Type: Article

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