All-optical inverted and noninverted wavelength conversion using two-cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1229-1231

  Hamié, Ali ^a   Sharaiha, Ammar ^a   Guégan, Mikael ^a   Le Bihan, Jean ^a  

^a Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Brest   (France)

Author keywords

All optical wavelength converter; Counterpropagating operation; Optical communication; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

ALL OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERTER; COUNTERPROPAGATING OPERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOAS);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 20544442185     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.846923     Document Type: Article

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