All-Optical Switching by Counterpropagating Operation in Cascaded Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 513-515

  Kim, Jong Hoi ^a   Oh, Kwang Ryong ^b   Kim, Hyun Soo ^c   Cho, Kyuman ^a  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

All optical switch; Counterpropagating operation; Nonlinear transmittance; Self induced gain modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifier

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000178024     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.841270     Document Type: Article

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