Flat-top pulse generation by the optical fourier transform technique for ultrahigh speed signal processing

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1317-1324

  Palushani, Evarist ^a   Oxenløwe, Leif Katsuo ^a   Galili, Michael ^a   Mulvad, Hans Christian Hansen ^a   Clausen, Anders T ^a   Jeppesen, Palle ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

All optical demultiplexing; Flat top pulse; Nonlinear optical switching; Pulse shaping; Serial optical data communications; Space time duality; Timing tolerance

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXING; FLAT-TOP; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; OPTICAL DATA; SPACE-TIME DUALITY; TIMING TOLERANCES;

CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DEMULTIPLEXING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 77949662896     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2028586     Document Type: Article

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