A photonic ultra-wideband pulse generator based on relaxation oscillations of a semiconductor laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9680-9687

  Yu, Xianbin ^a   Gibbon, Timothy Braidwood ^a   Pawlik, Michal ^a   Blaaberg, Sołren ^a   Monroy, Idelfonso Tafur ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MODULATION; PULSE GENERATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPLEX SHAPES; DIRECT MODULATION; FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; MODULATION RESPONSE; RELAXATION OSCILLATION; SIMULATION PREDICTION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND PULSE;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OSCILLOMETRY; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; OSCILLOMETRY; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 66849131428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009680     Document Type: Article

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