Cascaded wavelength conversion by four-wave mixing in a strained semiconductor optical amplifier at 10 Gb/s

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 752-754

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

^a IEEE

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c SDL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CASCADE CONNECTIONS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL MIXING; POWER PENALTY MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0031170495     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.584979     Document Type: Article

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