40 Gb/s 2R Burst Mode Receiver with a single integrated SOA-MZI switch

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 5043-5049

  Kanellos, G T ^a   Pleros, N ^a   Petrantonakis, D ^a   Zakynthinos, P ^a   Avramopoulos, H ^a   Maxwell, G ^b   Poustie, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Centre for Integrated Photonics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

ASYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL DATA PACKETS; BURST MODE RECEIVER; POWER EQUALIZATION; RATIO COUPLERS;

OPTICAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 34247259038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005043     Document Type: Article

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