160 Gb/s time-domain channel extraction/insertion and all-optical logic operations exploiting a single PPLN waveguide

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 4221-4227

  Bogoni, Antonella ^a   Wu, Xiaoxia ^b   Fazal, Irfan ^b   Willner, Alan E ^b  

^a CNIT   (Italy)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Add drop operation; Photonic digital processing; Ultrafast nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

160 GB/S; ADD/DROP OPERATION; ALL-OPTICAL LOGIC; ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY GENERATION; DIGITAL OPERATION; HALF-ADDER; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INSERTION OPERATIONS; NIOBATES; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEMS; PERIODICALLY POLED; PPLN WAVEGUIDES; PUMP DEPLETION; TIME DOMAIN; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

BIT ERROR RATE; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PUMPS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 69949106866     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2022848     Document Type: Article

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