Ultralong continuously tunable parametric delays via a cascading discrete stage

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 333-339

  Dai, Yitang ^a   Okawachi, Yoshitomo ^a   Turner Foster, Amy C ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a   Xu, Chris ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; WAVES;

10 GB/ S; ALL-OPTICAL; DATA CHANNELS; DELAY LINE; DELAY STAGES; DISCRETE DELAY; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; TUNING RANGES; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 73549095530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000333     Document Type: Article

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