20-Gb/s all-optical format conversions from RZ signals with different duty cycles to NRZ signals

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1027-1029

  Yu, Yu ^a   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a   Li, Lijun ^b   Fu, Wei ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

Author keywords

Delay interferometer (DI); Duty cycle; Format conversion; Nonreturn to zero (NRZ); Return to zero (RZ)

Indexed keywords

DELAY INTERFEROMETER; FORMAT CONVERSION; NONRETURN-TO-ZERO; RETURN-TO-ZERO;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 34447320475     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.898762     Document Type: Article

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