Phase noise reduction of a quantum dash mode-locked laser in a millimeter-wave coupled opto-electronic oscillator

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2789-2794

  van Dijk, Frédéric ^a   Enard, Alain ^a   Buet, Xavier ^a   Lelarge, François ^a   Duan, Guang Hua ^a  

^a ALCATEL THALES III V LAB   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector lasers; Injection locked oscillators; Mode locked lasers; Optical oscillators; Optical pulse generation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); LASER OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PHASE NOISE; SIGNAL GENERATORS;

DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASERS; INJECTION-LOCKED OSCILLATORS; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; OPTICAL OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 54949105493     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.927608     Document Type: Article

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