Dynamic WDM equalizer using opto-VLSI beam processing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1603-1605

  Ahderom, Selam ^a   Raisi, Mehrdad ^a   Alameh, Kamal E ^a   Eshraghian, Kamran ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Optical attenuators; Optical equalizers; Optical signal processing; Optical switching; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); EQUALIZERS; HOLOGRAMS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; VLSI CIRCUITS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CHANNEL-BY-CHANNEL EQUALIZATION; OPTICAL ATTENUATOR; OPTICAL BEAMS; OPTICAL EQUALIZER; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING EQUALIZER;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0242334125     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.818633     Document Type: Article

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