Subharmonic Pulse-Gating in Self-Seeded Laser Diodes for Time- and Wavelength-Interleaved Picosecond Pulse Generation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-213

  Lee, Ka Lun ^a   Shu, Chester ^a   Liu, Hai Feng ^b,c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

External cavity; Multiwavelength pulse generation; Self seeding; Semiconductor laser

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; FIBERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; JITTER; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODULATORS; SWITCHING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EXTERNAL CAVITY; MULTIWAVELENGTH PULSE GENERATION; SELF-SEEDING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 1642618450     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.823034     Document Type: Article

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