Experimental demonstration of dynamic network equalization of three 2.5-Gb/s WDM channels over 1000 km using acoustooptic tunable filters

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1243-1245

  Huang, S H ^b   Zou, X Y ^b   Hwang, S M ^b   Willner, A E ^a,b   Bao, Z ^c   Smith, D A ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FEEDBACK; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL LINKS;

ACOUSTOOPTIC TUNABLE FILTERS; ACTIVE FEEDBACK; DYNAMIC NETWORK EQUALIZATION; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030242838     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.531850     Document Type: Article

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