10-GHz all-optical recirculating shift register with semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-assisted Sagnac switch and SOA feedback

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2483-2484

  Houbavlis, T ^a   Zoiros, K E ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Feedback; Interferometers; Semiconductors; Switches

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FEEDBACK; FIBER LASERS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

NONLINEAR SWITCHING; OPTICAL RECIRCULATING SHIFT REGISTER; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER;

SHIFT REGISTERS;

EID: 0142091361     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1599363     Document Type: Article

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