All-optical passive clock extraction of 40 Gbit/s NRZ data using narrow-band filtering

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 3196-3203

  Li, Xiaoxu ^a   Kim, Cheolhwan ^a   Li, Guifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CARRIER-TO-NOISE RATIO (CNR); FIBER OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA);

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 4644292295     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003196     Document Type: Article

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