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Technique for suppression of pattern dependence in a semiconductor-optical-amplifier wavelength converter

Mahgerfteh et al., 1997

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415539034926906610
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Mahgerfteh D
Cho P
Goldhar J
Burdge G
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IEEE Photonics technology letters

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Wavelength converters that employ cross-gain modulation (XGM) in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) are limited in bit rate by the amplifier's pattern dependent response. We substantially suppress this pattern dependence by converting the phase modulation at the …
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