Tunable lattice-form mach-zehnder interferometer for arbitrary binary code generation at 40 GHz

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 3070-3078

  Samadi, Payman ^a   Kostko, Irina A ^a   Jain, Apurva ^a,b   Shia, Brian ^c   Callender, Claire L ^d   Dumais, Patrick ^d   Jacob, Sarkis ^d   Chen, Lawrence R ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c INFINERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arbitrary binary code generation; Mach Zehnder interferometers; optical arbitrary waveform generation; planar lightwave circuits; pulse repetition rate multiplication

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; CODE GENERATION; MACH-ZEHNDER; PLANAR LIGHT-WAVE CIRCUITS; PULSE REPETITION RATE MULTIPLICATION;

BINARY CODES; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; NETWORK COMPONENTS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SILICA; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 77958567980     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2072773     Document Type: Article

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