Integrated all-active Mach-Zehnder wavelength converter with -10 dBm signal sensitivity and 15 dB dynamic range at 10 Gbit/s

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 588-590

  Janz, C ^a   Dagens, B ^a   Bisson, A ^b   Poingt, F ^a   Pommereau, F ^a   Gaborit, F ^a   Guillemot, I ^a   Renaud, M ^a  

^a OPTO+   (France)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

INTEGRATED SIGNAL PREAMPLIFIERS; MACH-ZEHNDER WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 0032659833     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19990394     Document Type: Article

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