An electrooptic feedforward system for dynamic control of a Quasi-continuous-wave chirped laser source

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1226-1228

  Mandridis, Dimitrios ^a   Ozdur, Ibrahim ^a   Delfyett, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog to digital (A D) conversion; Feedforward systems; Laser radar; Mode locked lasers; Optical tomography

Indexed keywords

ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL (A/D) CONVERSION; CHIRPED LASERS; DYNAMIC CONTROLS; FEED-FORWARD; FEEDFORWARD SYSTEMS; LASER RADAR; LASER RADAR SYSTEM; LASER SOURCES; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTONIC ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; QUASI-CONTINUOUS-WAVES; TEMPORAL PROFILE;

COHERENT LIGHT; GENE TRANSFER; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; RADAR SYSTEMS;

LASERS;

EID: 69649106319     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2024644     Document Type: Article

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