10Gbit/s all-optical NRZ to RZ conversion based on TOAD

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6025, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yan, Yumei ^a   Yin, Lina ^a   Zhou, Yunfeng ^a   Liu, Guoming ^a   Wu, Jian ^a   Lin, Jintong ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Clock recovery; Format conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifier; Terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer

Indexed keywords

LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CLOCK RECOVERY; FORMAT CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; TERAHERTZ OPTICAL ASYMMETRIC DEMULTIPLEXER;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 33645053247     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.667018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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