A Technique for Rephasing +2R Regeneration of 40-Gb/s NRZ-DPSK Data

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 848-850

  Awad, Ehab S ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Differential phase shift keying (DPSK) 3R regeneration; Nonlinear optical signal processing; Optical communications

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949111195     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.921828     Document Type: Article

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