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spectral width

The amount of the electromagnetic spectrum that a laser beam covers. Thus far, it has been impossible to produce light pulses with zero spectral width. For example, a 1540 nm pulse might actually cover 1539.9 to 1540.1 nm, but not 1540.0 dead on. See optical bands.
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There are three benefits of 3D shaping: increase of capacity by shaping constellation points' probability with Fractional QAM; increase of reach by shaping constellation points' location; and maximisation of channel passband usage by shaping spectral width with adaptive baud rate.
Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers offer multiple advantages, such as wavelength stability, uniformity, spectral width, and temperature sensitivity.
Summary: Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers offer multiple advantages, such as wavelength stability, uniformity, spectral width, and temperature sensitivity.
The [sup.1]H NMR spectra were acquired using 64 K data points with a spectral width of 12019 Hz, the acquisition time of 2.73 s, the relaxation delay of 1 s, 16 scans, and a pulse width of 30[degrees].
Thus, the spectral width exceeding [DELTA][v.sub.FSR] can be measured within the resolution limit.
The functions [S.sub.i]([t.sub.j],[t'.sub.j]) are considerably different from zero in the region [absolute value of [t.sub.j]], [absolute value of [t'.sub.j]] [less than or equal to] [[DELTA].sub.i.sup.-1], where [[DELTA].sub.i] is the spectral width of pulse i.
A maximum overall output power of 19.2 W is obtained at 1544.68 nm with a FWHM spectral width of 0.08 nm and an overall slope efficiency of 31.9%, limited only by the available pump power.
This technique works well when spectral width is smaller than 3m/s and SNR is high.
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