All-optical wavelength conversion with large wavelength hopping by utilizing multistage cascaded SOA-based wavelength converters

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 926-928

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical frequency conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; GAIN BAND; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH CONVERTER; WAVELENGTH HOPPING; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (WDM);

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; WAVELENGTH; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 33845766740     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.872305     Document Type: Article

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