Flexible optical comb source for super channel systems

2013 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, OFC/NFOEC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Anandarajah, Prince M ^a   Zhou, Rui ^a   Maher, Robert ^a,b   Deseada Gutierrez Pascual, M ^a   Smyth, Frank ^a   Vujicic, Vidak ^a   Barry, Liam P ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN SWITCHING; OPTICAL COMB SOURCES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SIMPLE METHOD; SUPERCHANNEL; TUNABILITIES;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 84881049927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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