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Ultrahigh-speed optical transmission technology

Ultrahigh-speed optical transmission technology is a key technology for increasing the communication capacity. In optical fibre networks, the number of wavelength channels and the bit rate per wavelength channel, i.e. Currently, TDM bit rates of more than 40 Gbit/s require optical signal processing (Optical Time Division Multiplexing, OTDM).
Print Book, English, ©2007
Springer, New York, ©2007
vi, 481 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9783540238782, 3540238786
149422263
to ultra-high-speed optical transmission technology.- Semiconductor mode-locked lasers as pulse sources for high bit rate data transmission.- Ultrafast mode-locked fiber lasers for high-speed OTDM transmission and related topics.- Ultra-high-speed LiNbO3 modulators.- High-speed optical signal processing using semiconductor optical amplifiers.- Optical signal processing using nonlinear fibers.- Ultrafast photodetectors and receivers.- Optical nonlinearities in semiconductor optical amplifier and electro-absorption modulator: their applications to all-optical regeneration.- Optical fibers and fiber dispersion compensators for high-speed optical communication.- Fiber Bragg gratings for dispersion compensation in optical communication systems.- Higher-order dispersion compensation using phase modulators.- PMD-compensation techniques.- Application of electroabsorption modulators for high-speed transmission systems.- Ultrafast OTDM transmission using novel fiber devices for pulse compression, shaping, and demultiplexing.- Ultrafast optical technologies for large-capacity TDM/WDM photonic networks.- New optical device technologies for ultrafast OTDM systems.- Optical sampling techniques.