Polarization insensitive waveform restoration and channel crosstalk reduction in semiconductor optical amplifier gates using polarimetric filtering

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1606-1608

  Chan, Kit ^a   Chan, Chun Kit ^a   Chen, Lian Kuan ^a   Tong, Frank ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Gain saturation; Inline amplifier; Optical gate; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

BINARY SEQUENCES; BIREFRINGENCE; CROSSTALK; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

CHANNEL CROSSTALK; CROSS GAIN MODULATION; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION; POLARIMETRIC FILTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; WAVEFORM RESTORATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0242270847     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818659     Document Type: Article

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