Performances of a widely pulsewidth-tunable multiwavelength pulse generator by a single SOA-based delayed interferometric switch

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 10010-10021

  Matsuura, Motoharu ^a   Kishi, Naoto ^a   Miki, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PERFORMANCE;

CLOCK PULSE TRAINS; PULSEWIDHT CONTROLLABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 28944447736     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010010     Document Type: Article

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