Passive optical equalization of wavelength converters based on four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 522-524

  Morgan, Trefor J ^a,c   Tucker, Rodney S ^a,c   Yoffe, Gideon ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c IEEE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Equalizers; Frequency conversion; Gratings; Optical mixing; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EQUALIZERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS (FBG); PASSIVE OPTICAL EQUALIZATION;

FREQUENCY CONVERTERS;

EID: 3643084432     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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