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Asia Communications and Photonics Conference

Hybrid Optical Phase Quantization for All-optical Signal Processing

Takayuki Kurosu, Hung Nguyen Tan, Karen Solis-Trapala, Shu Namiki

Published Jan 1, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

Recent progress in all-optical signal processing based on the novel hybrid optical phase squeezer (HOPS) is presented. After reviewing the principle, we experimentally demonstrate various configurations of HOPS to phase-regenerate BPSK signal and QPSK signal.
DOI
10.1364/acpc.2015.am3f.1

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