Demonstration of high-fidelity dynamic optical arbitrary waveform generation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 22988-22995

  Fontaine, Nicolas K ^a   Geisler, David J ^a   Scott, Ryan P ^a   He, Tingting ^a   Heritage, Jonathan P ^a   Yoo, S J B ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; HIGH FIDELITY; OPTICAL WAVEFORM; PASS BANDS; QUADRATURE MODULATORS; WAVE FORMS;

EID: 78149386018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022988     Document Type: Article

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