Widely Tunable Polarization-Independent All-Optical Wavelength Converter Using a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 525-527

  Mak, Mark W K ^a   Tsang, H K ^a   Chan, K ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Optical communication; Optical frequency conversion; Optical polarization; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA's); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000076216     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.841274     Document Type: Article

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