All-optical space switches with gain and principally ideal extinction ratios

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 622-632

  Leuthold, Juerg ^a   Besse, Pierre A ^a,b   Eckner, Juerg ^a   Gamper, Emil ^a   Dülk, Marcus ^a   Melchior, Hans ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

All optical; Extinction ratios; Light activated switches; On off control; Optical switches; Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001219028     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.663439     Document Type: Article

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