Nonlinear fiber interferometer based components for a high-bit-rate optical processing system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3238, Issue , 1997, Pages 167-177

  Shcherbakov, Alexandre S ^a   Rakovsky, Vsevolod Yu ^a  

^a PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

All optical digital processing; Optical logic and switching; Ultrafast fiber components

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FIBERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INTERFEROMETRY; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SILICA; SPINNING (FIBERS);

ALL-OPTICAL DIGITAL PROCESSING; DEMULTIPLEXERS; DIGITAL CONVERTERS; FEMTOSECOND RESPONSES; FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES; INTERFEROMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; KERR EFFECTS; KERR NON LINEARITIES; NON-LINEAR FIBERS; OPTICAL LOGIC AND SWITCHING; OPTICAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SCHEMES; RATE PROCESSING; SILICA OPTICAL FIBERS; ULTRAFAST FIBER COMPONENTS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 0010872790     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.284799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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