All-optical format conversion from CS-RZ to NRZ at 40Gbit/s

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5693-5698

  Yu, Yu ^a   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

CARRIER SUPPRESSED RETURN TO ZERO (CS-RZ); DELAY INTERFEROMETER (DI); NARROW BAND FILTERS; SPECTRA ANALYSIS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 34247847998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005693     Document Type: Article

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