Fast switching characteristics of a widely tunable laser transmitter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1038-1040

  Simsarian, John E ^a   Bhardwaj, Ashish ^a   Gripp, Jürgen ^a   Sherman, Karl ^a   Su, Yikai ^a   Webb, C ^a   Zhang, Liming ^a   Zirngibl, Martin ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector lasers; Driver circuits; Laser thermal factors; Laser tuning; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; LASER TUNING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DRIVER CIRCUITS;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 0042024870     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.814873     Document Type: Article

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