40nm wavelength tunable gain-switched optical comb source

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 26, 2011, Pages

  Zhou, Rui ^a   Latkowski, Sylwester ^a   O'Carroll, John ^b   Phelan, Richard ^b   Barry, Liam P ^a   Anandarajah, Prince ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b Unit 32 Trinity Technology and Enterprise Campus   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

COMB SOURCE; GAIN SWITCHING; GAIN-SWITCHED; OPTICAL LINEWIDTH; OPTICAL PHASE MODULATOR; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE;

PHASE MODULATION;

EID: 83455229753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00B415     Document Type: Article

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