40 Gb/s all-optical NRZ to RZ format conversion using single SOA assisted by optical bandpass filter

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2907-2914

  Dong, Jianji ^a   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Xu, Jing ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a   Fu, Songnian ^b   Shum, P ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EXTINCTION RATIO; FILTER DETUNING; FORMAT CONVERSION; OPTICAL BANDPASS FILTER (OBF);

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947380975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002907     Document Type: Article

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