All-optical WDM-to-TDM conversion with total capacity of 33 Gb/s for WDM network links

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1287-1294

  Daza, M R H ^a,b,c   Liu, H F ^a,b,d,e,f   Tsuchiya, M ^b   Ogawa, Y ^e   Kamiya, T ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Philippines)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c University of the Philippines ^*  (Philippines)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO   (Japan)

^f BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Communication systems; Optical switches; Semiconductor lasers; Time division multiplexing; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LASER MODE LOCKING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRRORS (NOLM);

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0031247133     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.658609     Document Type: Article

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