Optical frequency combs from semiconductor lasers and applications in ultrawideband signal processing and communications

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2701-2719

  Delfyett, Peter J ^a   Gee, Sangyoun ^a   Choi, Myoung Taek ^a   Izadpanah, Hossein ^a   Lee, Wangkuen ^a   Ozharar, Sarper ^a   Quinlan, Franklyn ^a   Yilmaz, Tolga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbitrary waveform generation; Heterodyning; Injection locked oscillators; Modelocked lasers (MLLs); Optical communications; Semiconductor lasers; Signal generation; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; HETERODYNING; INJECTION LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; SIGNAL GENERATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33746910546     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.875948     Document Type: Article

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