Pulse-shaping of gain-switched pulse from multimode laser diode using fiber Sagnac interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 19872-19881

  Wada, Kenji ^a   Takamatsu, Shuji ^a   Watanabe, Hideyuki ^a   Matsuyama, Tetsuya ^a   Horinaka, Hiromichi ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; DIODES; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; INTERFEROMETERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CHIRPED PULSE; FIBER SAGNAC INTERFEROMETERS; GAIN-SWITCHED; MULTIMODE LASER; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETER; OPTICAL LENGTH; PICOSECONDS; PULSE SHORTENING;

OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 56749098327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019872     Document Type: Article

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