Theoretical and experimental performance evaluation of all-optical multiwavelength conversion by four-wave mixing in fiber at 10/20/40 Gb/s for optical layer multicast

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1067-1071

  Yan, N ^a   Teixeira, A ^b   Sllveira, T ^b,c   Beleffi, G M T ^d   Curtl, F ^d   Forin, D ^d,e   Longa, F D ^a   Monroy, I T ^a   Monteiro, P ^b,c   Koonen, T ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Intistuto de Telecomunicações   (Portugal)

^c Siemens Portugal   (Portugal)

^d ISCOM   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

FWM; Multicast; Optical switching; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MULTICASTING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

MULTIWAVELENGTH CONVERSION (MWC); OPTICAL SWITCHING;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 34248572775     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.22358     Document Type: Article

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