State selection of a bistable SOA ring laser for bit level optical memory applications

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 989-991

  Wang, Bing C ^b   Xu, Lei ^b   Baby, Varghese ^b   Glesk, Ivan ^a,b   Prucnal, Paul R ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical bistability; Optical memories; Ring lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifier

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; RING LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR FIBER RING LASERS;

OPTICAL BISTABILITY;

EID: 0036648994     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.1012408     Document Type: Article

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