Proposal for PPLN-based all-optical NRZ-to-CSRZ, RZ-to-CSRZ, NRZ-DPSK-to-CSRZ-DPSK, and RZ-DPSK-to-CSRZ-DPSK format conversions

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1039-1041

  Wang, Jian ^a   Sun, Junqiang ^a   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

All optical format conversion; Cascaded second order nonlinearities; Multicasting; Multichannel; Optical signal processing; Periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN)

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL FORMAT CONVERSION; CASCADED SECOND-ORDER NONLINEARITIES; MULTI-CHANNEL; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE; SECOND-ORDER NONLINEARITY;

LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MULTICASTING;

EID: 49749115252     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.924193     Document Type: Article

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