Multipump four-wave mixing in a photonic crystal fiber for 6 × 10 Gb/s wavelength multicasting of DPSK signals

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1166-1168

  Fok, Mable P ^a   Shu, Chester ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Differential phase shift keying (DPSK); Four wave mixing (FWM); Highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (PCF); Multiple wavelength conversion; Wavelength multicasting

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; MULTIPLE WAVLENGTH CONVERSION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; WAVELENGTH MULTICASTING;

DISPERSION (WAVES); FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

MULTICASTING;

EID: 34547095769     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.901450     Document Type: Article

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