Polarization-insensitive and widely tunable wavelength conversion for polarization shift keying signal based on four wave mixing in highly non-linear fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2467-2476

  Bhuiyan, Md Nur Al Safa ^a   Matsuura, Motoharu ^a   Tan, Hung Nguyen ^a   Kishi, Naoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

ALL-OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; NON-LINEAR FIBER; POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; POLARIZATION SHIFT KEYING; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; STATE OF POLARIZATION; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE; WIDELY TUNABLE;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 76149114612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.002467     Document Type: Article

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