Return-to-zero modulation with electrically continuously tunable duty cycle using single NRZ modulator

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 859-860

  Winzer, P J ^a   Chandrasekhar, S ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; INSERTION LOSSES; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; TIMING JITTER; TRANSMITTERS;

ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE DUTY CYCLES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0038678217     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20030569     Document Type: Article

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