Ultrahigh-speed optical pulse generation using a phase modulator and two stages of delayed Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Pan, Zhonggi ^a   Chandel, Swaty ^a   Yu, Changyuan ^b  

^a University of Louisiana at Lafayette   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Optical phase modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical signal processing

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DELAYED INTERFEROMETER; PULSE TRAIN;

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 34548607295     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2752821     Document Type: Article

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