Characterization of a turbo-switch SOA wavelength converter using spectrographic pulse measurement

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 841-848

  Reid, Douglas A ^b   Clarke, Aisling M ^a,b   Yang, Xuelin ^a,c   Maher, Robert ^a,b   Webb, Roderick P ^c   Manning, Robert J ^a,c   Barry, Liam P ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

High speed optical techniques; Optical frequency conversion; Optical pulse measurement; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY-RESOLVED OPTICAL GATING (FROG); INPUT POWERS; LINE RATE; MACH ZEHNDER (MZ); OPERATING CONDITIONS; OUTPUT PULSES; PULSE MEASUREMENTS; PULSE WIDTH (PW); WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

EID: 45249122213     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.919742     Document Type: Article

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