Spectral line-by-line pulse shaping on an optical frequency comb generator

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1163-1174

  Jiang, Zhi ^a   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Huang, Chen Bin ^a   Miao, Houxun ^a   Kourogi, Motonobu ^b   Imai, Kazuhiro ^b   Weiner, Andrew W ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Line by line pulse shaping; Optical arbitrary waveform generation; Optical frequency comb generator (OFCG); Optical processing

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS;

LINE-BY-LINE PULSE SHAPING; OPTICAL ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB GENERATOR; OPTICAL PROCESSING;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 36349019227     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.907033     Document Type: Article

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