All-optical burst-mode power equalizer based on cascaded SOAs for 10-Gb/ s EPONs

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 2078-2080

  Pato, Sílvia V ^a,b   Meleiro, Rui ^a,c   Fonseca, Daniel ^c   André, Paulo ^a   Monteiro, Paulo ^a,c   Silva, Henrique ^b  

^a Siemens Networks S A Dl research   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Burst mode operation; Optical power equalization; Passive optical network (PON); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PASSIVE NETWORKS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

ALL-OPTICAL; BURST-MODE OPERATION; DYNAMIC RANGES; ETHERNET PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS; NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS; OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL POWER EQUALIZATION; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (PON); POWER EQUALIZATIONS; POWER EQUALIZERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA);

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 59649095526     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2006629     Document Type: Article

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