Cascadability performance evaluation of a new NRZ SOA-MZI wavelength converter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1341-1343

  Apostolopoulos, D ^a   Klonidis, D ^b   Zakynthinos, P ^a   Vyrsokinos, K ^a   Pleros, N ^c   Tomkos, I ^b   Avramopoulos, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

All optical wavelength conversion (WC); Hybridintegrated Mach Zehnder interferometer (HMZI)

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; ALL-OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERSION (WC); CONTINUOUS-WAVE SIGNALS; CONTROL SCHEMES; ERROR-FREE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; HYBRIDINTEGRATED MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER (HMZI); NON-RETURN-TO-ZERO; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; WAVELENGTH CONVERTER;

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 70349425841     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2026183     Document Type: Article

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