All-optical storage of a picosecond-pulse packet using parametric amplification

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1020-1022

  Bartolini, Glenn D ^a,b   Serkland, Darwin K ^b   Kumar, Prem ^a,b   Kath, William L ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical cache memory; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communications; Optical networks; Optical storage buffers; Parametric amplifiers; Time division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LENSES; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PACKET SWITCHING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER); TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FIBER POLARIZATION CONTROLLERS (FPC); OPTICAL STORAGE BUFFERS; PHASE SENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS (PSA);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031191927     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.593386     Document Type: Article

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