Spectral narrowing effect by quasi-phase continuous tuning in high-speed wavelength-swept light source

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 21105-21118

  Chong, Changho ^a   Suzuki, Takuya ^a   Morosawa, Atsushi ^a   Sakai, Tooru ^a  

^a Santec Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT SOURCES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

CAVITY CONFIGURATION; INSTANTANEOUS LINEWIDTHS; PHASE-CONTINUOUS TUNING; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; SPECTRAL NARROWING; WAVELENGTH REGIONS; WAVELENGTH SCANNING; WAVELENGTH SWEPT LASER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; LIGHT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 57349087177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021105     Document Type: Article

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