Analysis and demonstration of single-passband response and tuning characteristics in a chirped ladder interferometric filter for a widely tunable laser diode

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 6007-6016

  Jeong, Seok Hwan ^a   Matsuo, Shinji ^a   Yoshikuni, Yuzo ^a   Segawa, Toru ^a   Ohiso, Yoshitaka ^a   Suzuki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; FREQUENCIES; INTERFEROMETRY; LADDER NETWORKS; LASER TUNING; OSCILLATIONS;

LASER OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; SINGLE-PASSBAND RESPONSE;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 28044451764     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006007     Document Type: Article

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