All-optic scheme for automatic polarization division demultiplexing

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7407-7414

  Steve Yao, X ^a,b   Yan, L S ^b   Zhang, B ^b,c   Willner, A E ^c   Jiang, Junfeng ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b General Photonics Corporation   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical Engineering Systems University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

EXTINCTION RATIO; POLARIZATION CHANNELS; POLARIZATION DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (PDM);

DEMULTIPLEXING;

EID: 34250216023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007407     Document Type: Article

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