Polarization insensitive wavelength conversion for 4×112Gbit/s polarization multiplexing RZ-QPSK signals

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21161-21169

  Huang, Ming Fang ^a,b   Yu, Jianjun ^a   Chang, Gee Kung ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

DIGITAL COHERENT DETECTIONS; FOUR-CHANNEL; ORTHOGONAL PUMPS; POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; QPSK SIGNALS; SINGLE-CHANNEL SIGNALS; WAVELENGTH SPACING;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 58149127560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021161     Document Type: Article

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