All-optical digital-to-analog conversion using nonlinear optical loop mirrors

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 703-705

  Oda, Shoichiro ^a   Maruta, Akihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross phase modulation; Nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM); Optical digital to analog conversion (DAC)

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; CROSS-PHASE MODULATIONS; GRAY CODES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; ULTRA-FAST;

MIRRORS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE MODULATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33846227116     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.871155     Document Type: Article

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