Control Scheme for Optimizing the Interferometer Phase Bias in the Symmetric-Mach-Zehnder All-Optical Switch

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E86-C, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 731-740

  Ueno, Yoshiyasu ^a,b   Takahashi, Morio ^a   Nakamura, Shigeru ^a   Suzuki, Kouichi ^a   Shimizu, Takanori ^a   Furukawa, Akio ^a   Tamanuki, Takemasa ^a   Mori, Kazuo ^a   Ae, Satoshi ^a   Sasaki, Tatsuya ^a   Tajima, Kazuhito ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical; Control scheme; Demultiplexing; Interferometer; Phase bias

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

PHASE BIAS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0141972393     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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