Random optical pulse generation with bistable semiconductor ring lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7439-7450

  Sunada, Satosh ^a   Harayama, Takahisa ^a   Arai, Kenichi ^a   Yoshimura, Kazuyuki ^a   Tsuzuki, Ken ^b   Uchida, Atsushi ^c   Davis, Peter ^a  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RING LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION NOISE; BISTABLES; COUNTERPROPAGATING; INJECTION CURRENTS; LASING MODES; MONOSTABLE; OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION; OPTICAL PULSE SEQUENCES; OPTICAL PULSE TRAIN; PERIODIC PULSE SIGNAL; PULSE SEQUENCE; RANDOMNESS PROPERTY; RANDOMNESS TEST; RELATIVE STRENGTH; SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASERS; SWITCH PARAMETERS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 79953856370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007439     Document Type: Article

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