Theoretical study of the spurious-free dynamic range of a tunable delay line based on slow light in SOA

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20584-20597

  Berger, Perrine ^a,b   Bourderionnet, Jérôme ^a   Alouini, Mehdi ^a,c   Bretenaker, Fabien ^b   Dolfi, Daniel ^a  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

COHERENT POPULATION OSCILLATION; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MICROWAVE SPECTRUM; PREDICTIVE MODELING; RADAR APPLICATIONS; SATURATION PARAMETERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOAS); SPURIOUS FREE DYNAMIC RANGE;

SLOW LIGHT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70749123393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020584     Document Type: Article

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