DSP-enabled reconfigurable & transparent spectral converters for converging optical & mobile fronthaul/backhaul networks

Optics Express

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 13836-13856

  Mao, M Z ^a   Giddings, R P ^b   Cao, B Y ^a   Xu, Y T ^a   Wang, M ^a   Tang, J M ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; LIGHT MODULATORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSPARENCY;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING (DSP); DUAL-PARALLEL MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATORS; FREQUENCY DETUNING; OPTIMUM OPERATING CONDITIONS; RECONFIGURABILITY; SIGNAL CHARACTERISTIC; SPECTRAL CONVERSION; SPECTRAL CONVERTERS;

TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; PUNISHMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 85020718364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.013836     Document Type: Article

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