Separate error-free transmission of eight channels at 10 Gb/s using comb generation in a quantum-dash-based mode-locked laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 1746-1748

  Akrout, Akram ^a,b   Shen, Alexandre ^a,b   Brenot, Romain ^a,b   Van Dijk, Frédéric ^a,b   Legouezigou, Odile ^a,b   Pommereau, Frederic ^a,b   Lelarge, Francois ^a,b   Ramdane, Abderrahim ^a,b   Duan, Guang Hua ^a,b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Mode locked laser; Quantum dash (qd); Semiconductor laser

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); QUANTUM DASH LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

10 GB/ S; ERROR FREE TRANSMISSION; EXTERNAL CAVITY; MODE-LOCKED; MODE-LOCKED LASER; OPTICAL SPECTRA; QUANTUM DASHES; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77954945088     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2032243     Document Type: Article

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