Wide-band residual phase-noise measurements on 40-GHz monolithic mode-locked lasers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2388-2390

  Larsson, David ^a   Yvind, Kresten ^a   Hvam, Jørn M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Jitter; Mode locked laser diode; Optical communications

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; NYQUIST DIAGRAMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIMING JITTER; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

MODE LOCKED LASER DIODE; NYQUIST FREQUENCY; PHASE NOISE MEASUREMENTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 27744445030     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.857983     Document Type: Article

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