Developments of Optical Frequency Standards for Wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) Optical Fiber Communication Systems

The transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.A

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 52-55

  Nakagawa, Ken'ichi ^a   Onae, Atsushi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

optical fiber communications; optical frequency standard; WDM (wavelength division multiplexing)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009647463     PISSN: 03854205     EISSN: 13475533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejfms.124.52     Document Type: Article

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