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Hassan Termos, Ali Mansour, Abbass Nasser

    Applied Optics
    |October 6, 2021
    PubMed
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    This study demonstrates simultaneous frequency up- and down-conversion for radio-over-fiber applications using cascaded semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometers (SOA-MZIs). The novel system achieves high conversion gains and bit rates, enhancing optical transmission efficiency.

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