80-Gb/s OTDM system analysis of a vertical microcavity-based saturable absorber for the enhancement of pulse pedestal suppression

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 321-323

  Clarke, A M ^a   Anandarajah, P M ^a   Bramerie, Laurent ^b   Guignard, C ^a   Maher, R ^a   Massoubre, D ^c   Shen, Alexandre ^d   Oudar, Jean Louis ^c   Barry, Liam P ^a   Simon, J C ^b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^d ALCATEL THALES III V LAB   (France)

Author keywords

Optical pulse shaping; Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM); Pulse generation; Saturable absorber (SA)

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MICROCAVITIES;

OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; OPTICAL TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SATURABLE ABSORBER;

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 33947667885     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.891594     Document Type: Article

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