Optical 40-Gb/s 3R regenerator with a combination of the SPM and XAM effects for all-optical networks

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1142-1148

  Daikoku, Masahiro ^a   Yoshikane, Noboru ^a   Otani, Tomohiro ^a   Tanaka, Hideaki ^a  

^a KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical network; Cross absorption modulation; Optical 40 Gb s 3R regenerator; Self phase modulation

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTORTION (WAVES); FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SELF PHASE MODULATION;

ALL-OPTICAL NETWORK; CROSS ABSORPTION MODULATION (XAM); HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBER (HNLF); OPTICAL REGENERATOR;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33644998775     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.863330     Document Type: Article

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