Directly modulated 25 Gbaud/s tunable in-series DFB laser array for WDM systems

Zhenxing Sun; Yaguang Wang; Rulei Xiao; Leilei Wang; Yangyang Gong; Yi-Jen Chiu; Xiangfei Chen

doi:10.3788/COL202321.011403

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