Investigation of 43-Gb/s transmission with a wavelength preserving SOA-based optical regenerator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1014-1016

  Gavioli, Giancarlo ^a   Bayle, Polina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical regeneration; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); Transmission; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

CROSS-GAIN COMPRESSIONS; INPUT SIGNAL; OPTICAL REGENERATION; OPTICAL REGENERATOR; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RETIMING; SYNCHRONOUS MODULATION; TRANSMISSION SIGNALS; TRANSOCEANIC DISTANCE; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; REGENERATORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 67650676040     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2021957     Document Type: Article

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