Mishra, AK, Ellis, AD, Barry, LP, Farrell, T;

2008

June

2008 Conference On Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, Vols 1-8

Time-Resolved Linewidth Measurements of A Wavelength Switched Sg-Dbr Laser For Optical Packet Switched Networks

Validated

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NA

2206

2208

We report time-resolved linewidth measurements of different sizes of optical packets under wavelength-switching for the first time and show that laser linewidth is significantly broadened during switching transition requiring similar to 3 mu s to attain its minimum value. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America..