All-optical noise suppression using two-stage highly-nonlinear fibre loop interferometers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 52-53

  Watanabe, S ^a   Takeda, S ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT MODULATION; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); HIGHLY-NONLINEAR DISPERSION-SHIFTED FIBER (HNL-SDF); NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR (NOLM) INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO (OSNR);

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0033639932     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20000136     Document Type: Article

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