Repetition rate upgrade for optical sources

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 861-863

  Yiannopoulos, K ^a   Vyrsokinos, K ^a   Pleros, N ^a   Tsiokos, D ^a   Bintjas, C ^a   Guekos, G ^b   Avramopoulos, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fabry P rot resonators; Optical transmitters; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; FIBER LASERS; LASER RESONATORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIMING JITTER; TRANSMITTERS;

AMPLITUDE EQUALIZATION; FABRY-PEROT FILTER; FABRY-PEROT RESONATOR; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; LASER OSCILLATOR; OPTICAL TRANSMITTER; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0037507327     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.811343     Document Type: Article

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