Tunable optical wavelength converters with reconfigurable functionality

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1181-1189

  Wang, Caroline C ^b,c   Tucker, Rodney S ^{a,b,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o}  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Cornell University   (United States)

^f Plessey Research Caswell   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

ⁱ Crawford Hill Laboratory ^*

^j Photonics Research Laboratory   (Australia)

^k Australian Photonics Coop Res Ctr   (Australia)

^l Technical Program Committee   (United States)

^m OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

ⁿ Institution of Engineers   (Australia)

^o Australian Acad Technol Sci Eng   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHASE MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING MULTIPLEXERS; CROSS GAIN MODULATION; CROSS PHASE MODULATION;

FREQUENCY CONVERTERS;

EID: 0031245841     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.658593     Document Type: Article

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