Design of Multicarrier Optical Source Using Cascaded Electro-Absorption Modulator and Phase Modulator

Feng Suchun; Fan Yiyi; Chen Xiaoyan; Xie Qian; Ren Wenhua

doi:10.3788/cjl201643.1106001

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