Enhanced modulation characteristics of optical injection-locked lasers: A tutorial

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 618-633

  Lau, Erwin K ^a   Wong, Liang Jie ^b   Wu, Ming C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Injection locking; Modulation frequency response; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

DESIGN RULES; INJECTION LOCKING; MODULATION CHARACTERISTICS; MODULATION FREQUENCY RESPONSE; OPTICAL INJECTION; OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LASERS; MODULATION;

INJECTION LASERS;

EID: 67650815523     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2014779     Document Type: Article

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