160-Gb/s all-optical demultiplexing using a Gain-Transparent Ultrafast-Nonlinear Interferometer (GT-UNI)

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 475-477

  Schubert, C ^b   Diez, S ^b   Berger, J ^b   Ludwig, R ^b   Feiste, U ^b   Weber, H G ^b   Toptchiyski, G ^c   Petermann, K ^a,c   Krajinovic, V ^d  

^a IEEE

^b FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Demultiplexing; Light triggered switches; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Time division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

GAIN MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL TESTING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ERROR FREE DEMULTIPLEXING; GAIN TRANSPARENT OPERATION; LIGHT TRIGGERED SWITCHES; NONLINEAR INTERFEROMETER; OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; SWITCHING WINDOW; ULTRAFAST INTERFEROMETER;

DEMULTIPLEXING;

EID: 0035333603     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.920756     Document Type: Article

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