Waveform shaping of chirp-controlled signal by semiconductor optical amplifier using Mach-Zehnder frequency discriminator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1422-1424

  Watanabe, Toshio ^a,b   Yasaka, Hiroshi ^a,b   Sakaida, Norio ^b   Koga, Masafumi ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chirp; Electroabsorption modulators; Mach Zehnder interferometers; Optical fiber; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Waveform shaping; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CHIRP-CONTROLLED SIGNALS; MACH-ZEHNDER FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATORS; WAVEFORM SHAPING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032188178     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.720281     Document Type: Article

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