Real-time detection of femtosecond optical pulse sequences via time-to-space conversion in the lightwave communications band

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3323-3333

  Chung, Jung Ho ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PACKET NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL PULSE; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE TIME PROCESSING; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION; THREE WAVE MIXING; TIME DOMAIN DEMULTIPLEXING; TIME DOMAIN MULTIPLEXING; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; ULTRAFAST PULSE MEASUREMENTS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 4544326536     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.820042     Document Type: Article

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