80 Gb/s wavelength conversion using a quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier and optical filtering

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5134-5142

  Meuer, Christian ^a   Schmidt Langhorst, Carsten ^b   Bonk, René ^c   Schmeckebier, Holger ^a   Arsenijević, Dejan ^a   Fiol, Gerrit ^a   Galperin, Andrey ^b   Leuthold, Juerg ^c   Schubert, Colja ^b   Bimberg, Dieter ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

40 GB/S; 80 GB/S; BIT ERROR RATIOS; DELAY INTERFEROMETER; ERROR-FREE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; GAIN DYNAMICS; ON-OFF KEYING; OPEN EYE DIAGRAMS; OPTICAL FILTERING; PHASE EFFECTS; QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; RETURN-TO-ZERO; SLOW PHASE; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH CONVERTER;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 79952609881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005134     Document Type: Article

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