Polarization-insensitive, 40 Gb/s wavelength and RZ-OOK-to-RZ-BPSK modulation format conversion by XPM in a highly nonlinear PCF

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 12039-12049

  Astar, W ^a,b   Wei, C C ^a,b,c   Chen, Y J ^b   Chen, J ^c   Carter, G M ^a,b  

^a LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE SHIFT KEYING; BIREFRINGENCE; MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; PROBES;

BPSK MODULATION; CROSS PHASE MODULATION; HIGHLY NON-LINEAR PCF; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; PUMP PROBE; RECEIVER SENSITIVITY; RETURN-TO-ZERO;

BINARY PHASE SHIFT KEYING;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 49149093536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012039     Document Type: Article

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