3.9-dB OSNR gain by an NOLM-based 2-R regenerator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2105-2107

  Meissner, Markus ^a   Sponsel, Klaus ^a   Cvecek, Kristian ^a   Benz, Andreas ^b   Weisser, Stefan ^b   Schmauss, Bernhard ^c   Leuchs, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR; OPTICAL REGENERATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BIT ERROR RATE; FIBER LASERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 4444364850     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.833043     Document Type: Article

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