Optical phase erasure based on FWM in HNLF enabling format conversion from 320-Gb/s RZDQPSK to 160-Gb/s RZ-DPSK

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 13346-13353

  Lu, Guo Wei ^a   Miyazaki, Tetsuya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

DQPSK-TRANSMITTER; FORMAT CONVERSION; FOUR-WAVE-MIXING PROCESS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBER(HNLF); MULTILEVEL MODULATION FORMATS; PHASE MODULATED SIGNALS; RETURN TO ZERO DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING (RZ DQPSK); RETURN-TO-ZERO DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING;

PHASE SHIFT KEYING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 68349158825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.013346     Document Type: Article

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