All-optical timing extraction with simultaneous optical demultiplexing from 40 Gb/s using a single electroabsorption modulator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 126-128

  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

Electroabsorption modulator; Nonlinear optical signal processing; Optical clock recovery; Optical demultiplexing

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; DEMULTIPLEXING; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FIBER LASERS; JITTER; LIGHT EXTINCTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALL-OPTICAL TIMING EXTRACTION; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATOR; NONLINEAR OPTICAL-SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY; OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXING;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0037246055     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.805778     Document Type: Article

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