All-optical switches based on Mach-Zehnder configuration with improved extinction ratios

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-57

  Besse, P A ^b   Melchior, H ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Multimode waveguides; Nonlinear optics; On off control; Optical interferometry; Optical switches; Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT EXTINCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; ON-OFF CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EXTINCTION RATIOS; OPTICAL PUSH PULL LEADS; SPLITTING RATIOS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0030737069     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.554487     Document Type: Article

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