The benefits of ultrashort optical pulses in optically interconnected systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 477-485

  Keeler, Gordon A ^a   Nelson, Bianca E ^a   Agarwal, Diwakar ^a   Debaes, Christof ^b   Helman, Noah C ^a   Bhatnagar, Aparna ^a   Miller, David A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Modelocked lasers; Optical interconnections; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optoelectronic devices; Synchronization; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; HIGH POWER LASERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING; JITTER; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL RECEIVERS; RECEIVER SENSITIVITY; SHORT PULSE DURATION; ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSES;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0242661487     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.813317     Document Type: Article

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