Generation of widely tunable picosecond pulses with large SMSR by externally injecting a gain-switched dual laser source

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2344-2346

  Clarke, A M ^a   Anandarajah, P M ^a   Barry, L P ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EXTERNAL INJECTION; GAIN SWITCHED DUAL LASER SOURCE; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; SIDEMODE SUPPRESSION RATIO (SMSR); TUNABLE PICOSECOND PULSES; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE SOURCE;

INJECTION LASERS;

EID: 5444273050     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.834523     Document Type: Article

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