Experimental investigation of the cascadability of a cross-gain modulation wavelength converter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 272-274

  Zheng, Xueyan ^a   Liu, Fenghai ^a   Kloch, Allan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ADD-DROP MULTIPLEXERS; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE); CROSS-GAIN MODULATION (XGM); JITTER; WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

FREQUENCY CONVERTERS;

EID: 0033893071     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.826911     Document Type: Article

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