NOLM-based RZ-DPSK signal regeneration

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 639-641

  Striegler, Arne G ^a   Meissner, M ^a   Cvecek K ^a   Sponsel, K ^a   Leuchs, G ^a   Schmauss, Bernhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

All optical regeneration; Differential phase shift keying (DPSK); Nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ALL OPTICAL REGENERATION; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFT KEYING (DPSK); MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 14844347605     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.842320     Document Type: Article

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