Increasing the modulation bandwidth of semiconductor-optical-amplifier-based switches by using optical filtering

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1606-1619

  Nielsen, Mads L ^a   Mørk, Jesper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

DELAYED INTERERENCE SIGNAL CONVERTER; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; MODULATION BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL FILTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; SMALL SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 10044234104     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001606     Document Type: Article

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