Experimental demonstration of an all-optical 2R regenerator with adjustable decision threshold and 'true' regeneration characteristics

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1516-1518

  Morthier, Geert ^a   Zhao, Mingshan ^a   Vanderhaegen, Bart ^a   Baets, Roel ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; OPTICAL DECISION CIRCUIT; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 0034314141     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.887727     Document Type: Article

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