Wavelength conversion up to 18 nm at 10 Gb/s by four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 452-454

  Geraghty, David F ^b   Lee, Robert B ^b   Vahala, Kerry J ^a,b   Verdiell, Marc ^a,c   Ziari, Mehrdad ^a,c   Mathur, Atul ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SDL   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication systems; Frequency conversion; Optical mixing; Semiconductor optical amplifier

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ERROR DETECTION; FIBER LASERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL LINKS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BIDIRECTIONAL COUPLER; BIT ERROR RATE TESTER; FREQUENCY CONVERSION; MICROWAVE TRANSITION ANALYZER; OPTICAL MIXING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

FREQUENCY CONVERTERS;

EID: 0031118031     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.559385     Document Type: Article

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