High speed all-optical PRBS generation based on quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 18469-18477

  Ma, S ^a   Sun, H ^a   Chen, Z ^a   Dutta, N K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SHIFT KEYING; EXCITED STATES; GROUND STATE; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

FUNCTIONAL UNITS; INJECTED CURRENT DENSITY; PSEUDO RANDOM BIT SEQUENCES; QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; REPETITION RATE; RETURN-TO-ZERO; SATURATION EFFECTS; SINGLE PULSE ENERGY;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 70350322982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018469     Document Type: Article

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