Cascadability improvement of semiconductor optical amplifier based gates using polarization multiplexing technique

Optics Communications

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 309-314

  Yu, Jianjun ^a   Zheng, Xueyan ^a   Jeppesen, Palle ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MULTIPLEXING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING METHOD; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0033734782     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(00)00671-4     Document Type: Article

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