RZ wavelength conversion with reduced power penalty using a semiconductor-optical-amplifier/fiber-grating hybrid device

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 66-68

  Cho, Pak S ^b   Mahgerefteh, Daniel ^a,b   Goldhar, Julius ^b   Burdge, Geoffrey L ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Gratings; Laser amplifiers; Optical fiber filters; Optical signal processing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA's); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FILTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

RETURN TO ZERO (RZ) WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0031672744     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.651106     Document Type: Article

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