Overcoming electronic limits to optical phase measurements with an optical phase-only amplifier

2012 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, OFC/NFOEC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kakande, J ^a   Slavik R ^a   Parmigiani, F ^a   Petropoulos, P ^a   Richardson, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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ENCODED SIGNALS; MODULATION DEPTH;

ENGINEERS; EXHIBITIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 84862078546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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