All-optical wavelength multicasting in a QD-SOA

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 541-547

  Contestabile, Giampiero ^a   Maruta, Akihiro ^b   Sekiguchi, Shigeaki ^c   Morito, Ken ^c   Sugawara, Mitsuru ^d   Kitayama, Ken Ichi ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^d Quantum Dot Laser Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross gain modulation (XGM); quantum dot (QD); semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) multicasting

Indexed keywords

80 GB/S; ALL-OPTICAL; CRITICAL NUMBERS; CROSS GAIN MODULATION; CROSS-PHASE MODULATIONS; MULTICASTS; QUANTUM DOT (QD); QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; RETURN-TO-ZERO SIGNALS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH MULTICASTING;

FOUR WAVE MIXING; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WAVELENGTH;

MULTICASTING;

EID: 79952832431     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2096500     Document Type: Article

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