Generation of 10 GHz optical pulses with very low timing jitter using one Section passively mode locked quantum dash based lasers operating at 1.55 μm

Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, Technical Digest Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Akrout, A ^a,b   Merghem, K ^a   Tourrenc, J P ^a   Martinez, A ^a   Shen, A ^b   Lelarge, F ^b   Duan, G H ^b   Ramdane, A ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND PHASE NOISE; CROSS CORRELATIONS; FABRY-PEROT; MODE-LOCKED LASER; OPTICAL PULSE; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; QUANTUM DASHES; RADIO FREQUENCIES;

LASERS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING JITTER;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70349278786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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