Saturable-absorber-based phase-preserving amplitude regeneration of RZ DPSK signals

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 887-889

  Le, Quang Trung ^a   Bramerie, Laurent ^a   Nguyen, Hoang Trung ^b   Gay, Mathilde ^a   Lobo, Sebastien ^a   Joindot, Michel ^a   Oudar, Jean Louis ^b   Simon, Jean Claude ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

All optical regeneration; Differential phase shift keying (DPSK); Saturable absorber (SA)

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHASE NOISE; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ALL OPTICAL REGENERATION; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; INPUT SIGNAL POWER; NONLINEAR PHASE NOISE; RECEIVER SENSITIVITY; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SIGNAL REGENERATION; TRANSMISSION LINK;

SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

EID: 77952915058     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2047103     Document Type: Article

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