40Gbit/s transmission over 406km of NDSF using mid-span spectral inversion by four-wave-mixing in a 2mm long semiconductor optical amplifier

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 879-880

  Marcenac, D D ^a   Nesset, D ^a   Kelly, A E ^a   Brierley, M ^a   Ellis, A D ^a   Moodie, D G ^a   Ford, C W ^a  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiwave mixing; Optical communication; Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

MODE LOCKED EXTERNAL CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR LASER; MULTIWAVE MIXING; NARROW LINEWIDTH EXTERNAL CAVITY TUNABLE LASER; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031559291     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970583     Document Type: Article

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