All-optical discrimination based on nonlinear transmittance of MQW semiconductor optical gates

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 873-884

  Hirano, Akira ^a   Tsuda, Hiroyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Hideki ^a   Takahashi, Ryo ^a   Asobe, Masaki ^a   Sato, Kenji ^a   Hagimoto, Kazuo ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PERFORMANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

OPTICAL DISCRIMINATION; OPTICAL GATE; SATURATED ABSORBER;

DISCRIMINATORS;

EID: 0032687686     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.762906     Document Type: Article

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