Supercontinuum lightwave generation employing a mode-locked laser diode with injection locking for a highly coherent optical multicarrier source

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 480-482

  Mori, Kunihiko ^a   Sato, Kenji ^a  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frequency control; Mode locked lasers; Nonlinear optics; Optical communication; Optical noise; Optical variables measurement; Semiconductor lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT SOURCES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

INJECTION LOCKING; MODE LOCKED LASER DIODE; OPTICAL MULTICARRIER SOURCE; OPTICAL NOISE; SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHTWAVE GENERATION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 13444259704     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.839787     Document Type: Article

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