OSA Advanced Photonics Congress

Advances in Optical Signal Processing Based on Phase Sensitive Parametric Mixing

David John Richardson, Joseph Kakande, Radan Slavı́k, F. Parmigiani, Periklis Petropoulos

Published Jan 1, 2012• 2 citations

Abstract

We review our recent work in the area of optical processing of phase encoded signals, focusing in particular on optical phase quantization – a key functionality for regeneration and test and measurement applications.

DOI: 10.1364/np.2012.nm3c.1

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