High-power broadly tunable electrooptic frequency comb generator

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Metcalf, Andrew J ^a   Torres Company, Victor ^b   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulators; Microwave photonics; Optical communication equipment; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; FREQUENCY COMB GENERATORS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; LITHIUM NIOBATE; LOW PROPAGATION LOSS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84880946001     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2268384     Document Type: Article

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