Wideband tunable wavelength conversion of 10-Gbit/s return-to-zero signals by optical time gating of a highly chirped rectangular supercontinuum light source

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 1314-1316

  Sotobayashi, Hideyuki ^a   Chujo, Wataru ^a   Ozeki, Takeshi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR PROPAGATION;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 0001385639     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001314     Document Type: Article

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