All-optical regenerative multicasting from 1.55- to 1.3-μm wavelength window using dual-stage cascaded SOA-based wavelength converter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2659-2661

  Matsuura, Motoharu ^a   Kishi, Naoto ^a   Miki, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); Signal multicasting; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

AMPLITUDE REGENERATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL MULTICASTING; WAVELENGTH CONVERTER;

MULTICASTING;

EID: 33845736983     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.887772     Document Type: Article

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