All-optical demultiplexing of 80 to 10 Gb/s signals with monolithic integrated high-performance Mach-Zehnder interferometer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 165-167

  Hess, R ^b   Caraccia Gross, M ^b   Vogt, W ^b   Gamper, E ^b   Besse, P A ^b   Duelk, M ^b   Gini, E ^b   Melchior, H ^a,b   Mikkelsen, B ^c   Vaa, M ^c   Jepsen, K S ^c   Stubkjaer, K E ^c   Bouchoule, S ^d  

^a IEEE

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Demultiplexing; Integrated optics; Multimode waveguides; Nonlinear optics; Optical communication; Optical interferometry; Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

MACH ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031646873     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.651151     Document Type: Article

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