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Widely-tunable chip-scale transmitters and wavelength converters

Coldren, 2003

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13193030121965919587
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Coldren L
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Integrated Photonics Research

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Widely-tunable lasers have gained much attention over the past few years as universal sources for dense WDM networks [1]. Interest in the dynamic networking capability enabled by such sources is also of continued interest, although the slow-down in the build out of the …
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