Cascaded WDM passive optical network with a highly shared source

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1170-1172

  Stark, Jason B ^b   Nuss, Martin C ^a,b   Knox, Wayne H ^b   Cundiff, Steven T ^b   Boivin, Luc ^b   Grubb, Steven G ^b,c   Tipton, Don ^b   DiGiovanni, David ^b   Koren, Uziel ^b   Dreyer, Kevin ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c SDL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber access; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communications; Ultrafast optics; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CASCADE CONNECTIONS; FIBER LASERS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PASSIVE NETWORKS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FIBER ACCESS; POWER SPLITTING;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0031213347     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.605539     Document Type: Article

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