Ultrafast Time-Domain Technology and Its Application in All-Optical Signal Processing

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1857-1868

  Vlachos, Kyriakos ^a   Pleros, Nikos ^b   Bintjas, Chris ^b   Theophilopoulos, George ^b   Avramopoulos, Hercules ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Exchange bypass switch; Interferometric gates; Optical signal processing; Optical switching; Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM); Packet switching; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); PACKET SWITCHING; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0141861980     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.816826     Document Type: Review

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