Photonic monocycle pulse frequency up-conversion for ultrawideband-over- fiber applications

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1006-1008

  Fu, Songnian ^a   Zhong, Wen De ^a   Wen, Yang Jing ^b   Shum, P ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR); Photonic up conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

DOWNCONVERSION; FIBER APPLICATIONS; LOCAL OSCILLATOR SIGNALS; LOW DISTORTION; MONOCYCLE PULSE; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION; OPTICAL MIXING; PHOTONIC UP-CONVERSION; POWER SPECTRUM DENSITY; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); UWB EMISSIONS;

FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; POLARIZATION; ROTATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 69649096086     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.923776     Document Type: Article

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