Extinction ratio improvement and wavelength conversion based on four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 139-141

  Gosset, Christophe ^b   Duan, Guang Hua ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing; Noise signal restoration; Semiconductor optical amplifier; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT EXTINCTION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DATA FORMAT CONVERSION; EXTINCTION RATIO (ER);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0035246417     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.910514     Document Type: Article

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