All-optical multi-wavelength conversion with negative power penalty by a commercial SOA-MZI for WDM wavelength multicast

OFC/NFOEC 2007 - Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yan, Ni ^a   Jung, Hyun Do ^a   Monroy, Idelfonso Tafur ^a   De Waardt, Huug ^a   Koonen, Ton ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTICASTING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL MULTI-WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH MULTICAST;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 39749129598     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OFC.2007.4348422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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