Improving the switching performance of a wavelength-tunable laser transmitter using a simple and effective driver circuit

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2132-2134

  Su, Yikai ^a   Simsarian, John E ^b   Zhang, Liming ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIVER CIRCUIT; PARAMETER EXTRACTION; SEMICONDUCTOR TUNABLE LASER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; LASER TUNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PACKET SWITCHING; SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 4444334542     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.831552     Document Type: Article

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