High-Power Widely Tunable 40-GHz Pulse Source for 160-Gb/s OTDM Systems Based on Nonlinear Fiber Effects

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 753-755

  Ciaramella, E ^a,b   Contestabile, G ^a,b   D'Errico, A ^b   Loiacono, C ^a,b   Presi, M ^b,c  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b CNIT   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Optical communications; Optical solitons; Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM); Pulse source

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; SOLITONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL SOLITONS; OPTICAL TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OTDM); PULSE SOURCES;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 1642602778     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.823772     Document Type: Article

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