28-ps switching window with a selective area MOVPE all-optical MZI switch

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1480-1482

  Song, Xueliang ^a   Futakuchi, Naoki ^a   Yit, Foo Cheong ^a   Zhang, Zhenrui ^a   Nakano, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical switch; Mac Zehnder interferometer (MZI); Metal organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE); Monolithic integration; Photonic integrated circuits (PICs); Selective area growth (SAG)

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; FIBER LASERS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; METALLORGANIC VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ALL-OPTICAL SWTICH; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER (MZI); MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (PICS); SELECTIVE AREA GROWTH (SAG);

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 23844477592     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.848402     Document Type: Article

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