Proposal and simulation of all-optical NRZ-to-RZ format conversion using cascaded sum- and difference-frequency generation

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 583-588

  Wang, Jian ^a   Sun, Junqiang ^a   Sun, Qizhen ^a   Wang, Dalin ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; LITHIUM NIOBATE;

DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION (DFG); EXTINCTION RATIO (ER); NONRETURN-TO-ZERO (NRZ); PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE (PPLN);

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 33846542388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000583     Document Type: Article

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