Penalty-free error-free all-optical data pulse regeneration at 84 Gb/s by using a symmetric-Mach-Zehnder-type semiconductor regenerator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 469-471

  Ueno, Y ^a   Nakamura, S ^a   Tajima, K ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

3R; All optical; Interferometric; Jitter; Mach Zehnder; Regeneration; Semicond uctor; Ultrafast

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; JITTER; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

DATA PULSE REGENERATION; MACH-ZEHNDER SEMICONDUCTOR REGENERATOR; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0035334720     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.920754     Document Type: Article

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