Mode-locked silicon evanescent lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11225-11233

  Koch, Brian R ^a   Fang, Alexander W ^a   Cohen, Oded ^b   Bowers, John E ^a  

^a Santa Barbara   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JITTER; LASER MODE LOCKING; SILICON; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TRANSMITTERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CLOCK GENERATION; MODE LOCKED LASERS; OPTICAL CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OCDMA); TELECOMMUNICATION TRANSMITTERS;

OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

EID: 34548397237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011225     Document Type: Article

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