Optical arbitrary waveform processing of more than 100 spectral comb lines

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 463-467

  Jiang, Zhi ^a   Huang, Chen Bin ^a   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY METROLOGY; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; LIGHT WAVE COMMUNICATION; LINE-BY-LINE PULSE SHAPING; OPTICAL ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATIONS; PARALLEL MANIPULATIONS; PULSE SHAPING TECHNIQUES; TIME-FREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL RADAR; SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 34547641191     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.139     Document Type: Article

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