SNR improvement of DPSK signals in a semiconductor optical regenerative amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-51

  Shin, Myunghun ^b   Devgan, Preetpaul S ^b   Grigoryan, Vladimir S ^b   Kumar, Prem ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential phase shift keying (DPSK); Optical regeneration; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

PHASE NOISE; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING (DPSK); OPTICAL REGENERATION; SINGLE-CHANNEL OPERATION;

PHASE SHIFT KEYING;

EID: 33645057167     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.860075     Document Type: Article

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