A Polarization Multiplexing Technique to Mitigate WDM Crosstalk in SOAs

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1415-1416

  Srivastava, A K ^a   Banerjee, S ^b   Eichenbaum, B R ^b   Wolf, C ^a   Sun, Y ^b   Sulhoff, J W ^b   Chraplyvy, A R ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosstalk mitigation; Gain saturation; Polarization multiplexing; SOAs; WDM transmission using SOA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001470909     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.883848     Document Type: Article

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