Demultiplexing using polarisation rotation in asemiconductor laser amplifier
- 17 February 1994
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 30 (4) , 341-342
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19940197
Abstract
An all-optical demultiplexing operation has been performed using polarisation rotation due to nonlinear effects in a travelling wave semiconductor laser amplifier. A 10 Gbit/s channel can be extracted from a 20 Gbit/s data stream using this technique.Keywords
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