Polarization-insensitive wavelength conversion up to 10 Gb/s based on four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 955-957

  Lin, L Y ^a   Wiesenfeld, J M ^a   Perino, J S ^a,b   Gnauck, A H ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Tvco SSI   (United States)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing; Semiconductor optical amplifier; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

POLARIZATION INSENSITIVE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0032123606     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.681282     Document Type: Article

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