In-band amplified spontaneous emission noise filtering with a dispersion-imbalanced nonlinear loop mirror

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1768-1772

  Wong, William S ^a,b,e   Hansen, Per B ^a   Nielsen, Torben N ^a,f   Margalit, Mordechai ^b   Namiki, Shu ^b,d,g,h,i   Ippen, Erich P ^{a,b,c,d,j,k,l,m,n,o}   Haus, Hermann A ^{b,c,d,m,o,p,q,r,s,t,u}  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c IEEE

^d OSA ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

ⁱ National Laboratory for High Energy Physics   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k Institute of Technology   (United States)

^l OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^m NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

ⁿ NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

^o AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (United States)

^p GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^q VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^r UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^s RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^t AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

^u GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

ASE noise; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical nonlinear loop mirrors; Optical receivers

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

DISPERSION-IMBALANCED NONLINEAR LOOP MIRROR; IN-BAND AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE) NOISE; OPTICAL FIBER DISPERSIONS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; RETURN-TO-ZERO SIGNALS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0032183235     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.721063     Document Type: Article

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