All-optical demultiplexing of 640-Gb/s OTDM-DPSK signal using a semiconductor SMZ switch

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 1574-1576

  Hirooka, Toshihiko ^a   Okazaki, Masatada ^a   Hirano, Toshiyuki ^a   Guan, Pengyu ^a   Nakazawa, Masataka ^a   Nakamura, Shigeru ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

High speed optical pulse transmission; Optical demultiplexing; Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Symmetric Mach Zehnder (SMZ) switch

Indexed keywords

HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL PULSE TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SYMMETRIC MACH-ZEHNDER; SYMMETRIC MACH-ZEHNDER (SMZ) SWITCH;

DEMULTIPLEXING; JITTER; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PACKET SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77954925575     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2029555     Document Type: Article

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