Multichannel Optical Signal Processing in NRZ Systems Based on a Frequency-Doubling Optoelectronic Oscillator

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1460-1468

  Pan, Shilong ^a   Yao, Jianping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carrier suppressed return to zero (CSRZ); clock recovery; dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM); format conversion; nonreturn to zero (NRZ); optical communications; optoelectronic oscillator (OEO); polarization modulator (PolM); regeneration; return to zero (RZ); serial to parallel conversion

Indexed keywords

CARRIER SUPPRESSED RETURN TO ZEROS; CLOCK RECOVERY; FORMAT CONVERSION; NON-RETURN-TO-ZERO; OPTO-ELECTRONIC OSCILLATOR; POLARIZATION MODULATOR (POLM); REGENERATION; RETURN-TO-ZERO; SERIAL-TO-PARALLEL CONVERSION;

ELECTRIC CLOCKS; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; PROBES; RECOVERY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 77957848232     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2037159     Document Type: Article

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