3R optical regeneration with simultaneous optical clock recovery and all-optical wavelength conversion using a single electro-absorption modulator

Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO - Technical Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 611-612

  Awad, Ehab S ^a,b   Cho, P S ^a,b   Moulton, Norman ^a,b   Goldhar, Julius ^a,b  

^a LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LOW PASS FILTERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATORS;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 0036455251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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