Wide-band tunable wavelength conversion of 10-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero signal using cross-phase-modulation-induced polarization rotation in 1-m Bismuth oxide-based nonlinear optical fiber

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 298-300

  Lee, Ju Han ^a,b,c   Nagashima, Tatsuo ^d   Hasegawa, Tomoharu ^d   Ohara, Seiki ^d   Sugimoto, Naoki ^d   Kikuchi, Kazuro ^b  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^d ASAHI GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Nonlinear optics; Optical communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical signal processing

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH OXIDE; ERROR FREE WAVELENGTHS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL FIBERS; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MODULATION; WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33746372737     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.861982     Document Type: Article

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