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Novel optical thresholder based on second harmonic generation in long periodically poled lithium niobate for ultrashort pulse optical code division multiple-access

Zheng Zheng, Andrew M. Weiner

Published Nov 7, 2002• 0 citations

Abstract

We report a novel yet practical optical thresholding scheme for ultrashort pulse CDMA using second harmonic generation in a long PPLN crystal, with a demonstrated contrast ratio of /spl sim/30 dB and the potential for low power operation.

DOI: 10.1109/ofc.2000.868601

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