All-optical timing extraction with simultaneous optical demultiplexing using time-dependent loss saturation in electro-absorption modulator

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

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; DEMULTIPLEXING; FIBER LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; MODULATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; TIMING JITTER;

ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATORS (EAM);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036459684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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