Experimental demonstrations of all-optical conversions between the RZ and NRZ data formats incorporating noninverting wavelength shifting leading to format transparency

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 712-714

  Norte, David ^a   Willner, Alan E ^b  

^a AT and T   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; FIBER LASERS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TRANSPARENCY;

ALL OPTICAL CONVERSIONS; DATA FORMATS; FORMAT TRANSPARENCY; NONRETURN TO ZERO DATA FORMATS; PULSE TRAINS; RETURN TO ZERO DATA FORMATS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; WAVELENGTH SHIFTING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0030150561     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.491604     Document Type: Article

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