Flat frequency comb generation with an integrated dual-parallel modulator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1011-1013

  Gheorma, Ioan L ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh K ^a  

^a Covega Corp ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulation; Frequency domain synthesis; Integrated optics; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

COMB GENERATION; DUAL-PARALLEL MODULATOR; ELECTROOPTIC MODULATION;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

DUAL-PARALLEL MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATORS; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATION; FLAT FREQUENCY COMBS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN SYNTHESIS; GIGAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; MULTI-WAVELENGTH SOURCE; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; WAVELENGTH SPACING;

EID: 34347215151     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.898766     Document Type: Article

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