IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 2006 · 63 citations · 9 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringOptoelectronicsPhotonicsSemiconductor MaterialsNonlinear Optical MaterialsNonlinear OpticsOptical AmplifiersOptical Communication SystemsOptical Properties Of SemiconductorsOptical Signal ProcessingDifferential Phase ShiftNonlinear Effects In Optical AmplifiersNonlinear Integrated OpticsOptical Frequency ConversionOptical RegenerationPseudorandom FunctionsSemiconductor Optical AmplifiersWavelength Conversion
A novel all-optical differential phase-shift keying wavelength converter based on semiconductor optical amplifier nonlinearities is demonstrated in the 25- to 40-Gb/s range with pseudorandom binary sequence of 2 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">7</sup> -1, and its regenerative properties as well as the cascadability are discussed
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