Generation of 6.3 ps optical pulses at a 10 GHzrepetition rate using apackaged electroabsorption modulator and dispersion compensatingfibre
- 29 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 30 (20) , 1700-1701
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19941115
Abstract
Sinusoidal modulation of an MQW InGaAsP/InGaAsP EA modulator at a 10 GHz repetition rate was used to generate optical pulses of width as low as 7 ps. Pulses were linearly compressed using 400 m of dispersion compensating fibre and approximately transform limited pulses of 6.3 ps width were measured.Keywords
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