All-optical wavelength converter scheme for high speed RZ signal formats

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 25, 1997, Pages 2137-2139

  Mikkelsen, B ^a   Jepsen, K S ^a   Vaa, M ^a   Poulsen, H N ^a   Stubkjaer, K E ^a   Hess, R ^b   Duelk, M ^b   Vogt, W ^b   Gamper, E ^b   Gini, E ^b   Besse, P A ^b   Melchior, H ^b   Bouchoule, S ^c   Devaux, F ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Demultiplexing equipment; Light interferometers; Optical communication

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BIT ERROR RATE MEASUREMENTS; DEMULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; LIGHT INTERFEROMETERS; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0031553258     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971449     Document Type: Article

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