Optical 3R regeneration using a single EAM for all-optical timing extraction with simultaneous reshaping and wavelength conversion

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1378-1380

  Awad, Ehab S ^a,b   Cho, Pak S ^a,b   Richardson, Christopher ^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

Clock recovery; Electroabsorption modulator; Nonlinear optical signal processing; Optical communications

Indexed keywords

BINARY SEQUENCES; ELECTRIC CLOCKS; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIMING JITTER;

ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATOR (EAM);

REGENERATORS;

EID: 0036741340     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.801107     Document Type: Article

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