Semiconductor Mirror for Optical Noise Suppression and Dynamic Dispersion Compensation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1481-1485

  Isomäki, Antti ^a   Vainionpää, Anne Maria ^a   Lyytikäinen, Jari ^a   Okhotnikov, Oleg G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise; Dispersion compensation; Quantum well (QW) devices; Saturable absorption

Indexed keywords

GATES (TRANSISTOR); INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION; OPTICAL NOISE SUPPRESSION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0242527222     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.818285     Document Type: Article

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