Ultrafast (200-fs switching, 1.5-Tb/s demultiplexing) and high-repetition (10 GHz) operations of a polarization-discriminating symmetric mach-zehnder all-optical switch

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1575-1577

  Nakamura, Shigeru ^a   Ueno, Yoshiyasu ^a   Tajima, Kazuhito ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical switch; Interferometer; Nonlinear optics; Optical demultiplexer; Semiconductor; Ultrafast; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS;

OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXERS; POLARIZATION-DISCRIMINATING SYMMETRIC MACH-ZEHNDER (PD-SMZ) SWITCHES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0032208475     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.726754     Document Type: Article

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