Impact of saturable absorption on performance of optical clock recovery using a mode-locked multisection semiconductor laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1177-1185

  Bao, Hongchun ^a   Wen, Yang Jing ^a   Liu, Hai Feng ^b  

^a School of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (Australia)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIMING JITTER;

DATA RATE DETUNING; EXTINCTION RATIO; LASER CAVITY; MARK RATIO; MULTISECTION SEMICONDUCTOR LASER; OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY; OPTICAL INJECTION POWER; SATURABLE ABSORPTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 4544230524     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.833237     Document Type: Article

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