Signal quality and BER performance improvement by wavelength conversion with an integrated three-port Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Electronics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 454-455

  Idler, W ^a   Schilling, M ^a   Daub, K ^a   Baums, D ^a   Korner U ^a   Lach, E ^a   Laube, G ^a   Wunstel K ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical frequency conversion

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHASE MODULATION;

INTEGRATED THREE PORT MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL CROSSPHASE MODULATION;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0029276996     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19950306     Document Type: Article

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