Coherent all-optical phase and amplitude regenerator of binary phase-encoded signals

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 859-869

  Slavík, Radan ^a,b   Bogris, Adonis ^c,d   Parmigiani, Francesca ^a   Kakande, Joseph ^a   Westlund, Mathias ^e   Sköld, Mats ^e   Grüner Nielsen, Lars ^f   Phelan, Richard ^g   Syvridis, Dimitris ^c   Petropoulos, Periklis ^a   Richardson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHOTONICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^e EXFO   (Canada)

^f OFS   (Denmark)

^g Unit 32 Trinity Technology and Enterprise Campus   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fiber optics; four wave mixing (FWM); optical amplifiers; optical signal processing; phase shift keying (PSK)

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; BLACK BOXES; DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; DETERMINISTIC PERTURBATION; ENCODED SIGNALS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; NOISE DISTRIBUTION; NONLINEAR PHASE NOISE; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL AMPLITUDE; SIGNAL REGENERATORS; SIGNAL TRANSMISSION; STABLE OPERATION; UNIQUE FEATURES;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; PHASE NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

REGENERATORS;

EID: 84855880062     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2136329     Document Type: Article

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