Polarization in retracing circuits for WDM-PON

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1191-1193

  Martinelli, Mario ^a   Marazzi, Lucia ^a   Parolari, Paola ^a   Brunero, Marco ^a   Gavioli, Giancarlo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Passive optical network (PON); polarization; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA); retracing optical circuit

Indexed keywords

FARADAY ROTATOR MIRROR; FARADAY ROTATORS; OPTICAL CIRCUITS; OPTICAL NETWORK UNITS; POLARIZATION EVOLUTION; REFLECTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; SELFTUNING; WDM-PON;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS; POLARIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84862270473     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2199296     Document Type: Article

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