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All-Optical Processing of Multi-level Phase Shift Keyed Signals

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

Published Jan 1, 2012• 15 citations

Abstract

A technique that allows the all-optical quantization of M-PSK signals using a parametric mixing process is discussed, including recent experimental demonstrations of high baud rate QPSK regeneration, and issues regarding future scalability of the scheme.

DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2012.ow1i.3

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