Characterization of the jitter in a mode-locked Er-fiber laser and its application in photonic sampling for analog-to-digital conversion at 10 Gsample/s

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1953-1961

  Ng, W ^a   So, Y M ^b   Stephens, R ^a   Persechini, D ^a  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATORS; LINEARIZATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIMING JITTER;

AMPLITUDE JITTER; ANTENNA REMOTING; DIGITAL LINEARIZATION; MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MODE LOCKED FIBER LASER; PHASE NOISE; PHOTONIC SAMPLING; PULSE TRAIN; SPURIOUS FREE DYNAMIC RANGE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 4344607953     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.832425     Document Type: Article

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