Interferometric Crosstalk Reduction by Phase Scrambling

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 637-645

  Monroy, Idelfonso Tafur ^a,b,c   Tangdiongga, Eduward ^a   Jonker, René ^a   De Waardt, Huig ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Bonch Bruevitch Inst of Commun   (Russian Federation)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Error analysis; Interferometric noise; Optical communication; Optical crosstalk; Phase scrambling; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012279971     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.842077     Document Type: Article

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