Software-synchronized all-optical sampling for fiber communication systems

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1088-1099

  Westlund, Mathias ^a   Sunnerud, Henrik ^a   Karlsson, Magnus ^a   Andrekson, Peter A ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical sampling; Clock recovery; Eye diagram; Four wave mixing (FWM); Parametric amplification; Q value; Software synchronized; Synchronous

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ALL OPTICAL SAMPLING; CLOCK RECOVERY; EYE DIAGRAM; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; Q VALUE; SOFTWARE SYNCHRONIZED;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 18144363614     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.838875     Document Type: Article

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