Efficient regenerative wavelength conversion at 10 Gbit/s over C- and L-band (80 nm span) using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with monolithically integrated semiconductor optical amplifiers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 241-243

  Dulk M ^a   Fischer, St ^a   Gamper, E ^a   Vogt, W ^a   Gini, E ^a   Melchior, H ^a   Hunziker, W ^b   Poulsen, H N ^c   Clausen, A T ^c   Buxens, A ^c   Jeppesen, P ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Opto Speed AG   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; FREQUENCIES; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

C BAND; DISPERSION COMPENSATING FIBER; L BAND; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; NEGATIVE POWER PENALTY; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; PSEUDORANDOM BIT SEQUENCE; REGENERATIVE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0342656667     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20000234     Document Type: Article

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