Analysis and design of ultrahigh-speed all-optical semiconductor-optical-amplifier-assisted Sagnac recirculating shift register with an inverter

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Zoiros, Kyriakos E ^a   Vardakas, John ^a   Koukourlis, Christos S ^a   Houbavlis, Thanassis ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

All optical networks; All optical recirculating shift register; All optical signal processing; All optical switching; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); SOA assisted Sagnac switch

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SHIFT REGISTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALL-OPTICAL NETWORKS; ALL-OPTICAL RECIRCULATING SHIFT REGISTER; ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); SOA ASSISTED SAGNAC SWITCH;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 24344450793     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1925530     Document Type: Article

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