160-Gb/s optical sampling by gain-transparent four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1402-1404

  Diez, S ^a   Ludwig, R ^a   Schmidt, C ^a   Feiste, U ^a   Weber, H G ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OPTICAL SAMPLING;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0033221499     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.803059     Document Type: Article

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