Polarization independent all-optical 3R regeneration based on the Kerr effect in highly nonlinear fiber and offset spectral slicing

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 616-624

  Ito, Chris ^b,c   Cartledge, John C ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Ciena Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical regeneration; Cross phase modulation (XPM); Highly nonlinear optical fiber; Optical signal processing; Self phase modulation (SPM)

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBER OPTICS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; LASER PULSES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MODULATION; MULTITASKING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHASE MODULATION; POLARIZATION; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; REGENERATORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; (ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; (PL) PROPERTIES; ALL OPTICAL 3R REGENERATION; ALL-OPTICAL; CLOCK RECOVERY (CR); CROSS PHASE MODULATION (PMD); EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; GROUP VELOCITY (GV); HIGHLY-NONLINEAR FIBER (HNLF); INPUT SIGNALS; KERR EFFECTS; KEY DESIGN PARAMETERS; KEY FEATURE; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO (OSNR)]; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT; POLARIZATION MODES; RETIMING; SELF-PHASE MODULATION (SPM); SPECTRAL SLICING; WAVEFORM DISTORTIONS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 45249085462     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.915393     Document Type: Article

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