Processing ultrafast optical signals in broadband telecom systems by means of cascaded quadratic nonlinearities

2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 222-226

  Gallo, Katia ^a   Prawiharjo, Jerry ^a   Parmigiani, Francesca ^a   Almeida, Paulo ^a   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 R regeneration; All optical switching; Frequency resolved optical gating; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear integrated optics

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; PULSE MODULATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BROADBAND TELECOM SYSTEMS; CASCADED QUADRATIC NONLINEARITIES; OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; SIGNAL REGENERATION;

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 34250661166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2006.248379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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