Demonstration of stable wavelength switching on a fast tunable laser transmitter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1014-1016

  Bhardwaj, Ashish ^a   Gripp, Jürgen ^a   Simsarian, John E ^a   Zirngibl, Martin ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast wavelength switching; Optical switch fabrics; Packet loss rates (PLRs); Widely tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTODETECTORS; ROUTERS; SWITCHING;

PACKET-LOSS RATES (PLR);

LASER TUNING;

EID: 0038340239     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.813409     Document Type: Article

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