SOA-assisted Sagnac switch and investigation of its roadmap from 10 to 40 GHz

Optical and Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1175-1203

  Houbavlis, T ^a   Zoiros, K E ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

All optical networks; Nonlinear Sagnac interferometer; Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); SOA assisted Sagnac switch; Ultra high speed optical signal processing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERNET; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; ROUTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ALL OPTICAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER; PHOTONIC NETWORKS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0344443728     PISSN: 03068919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1027394606525     Document Type: Article

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