Hybrid-integrated symmetric Mach-Zehnder all-optical switches and ultrafast signal processing

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E87-C, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1119-1125

  Tajima, Kazuhito ^a,b   Nakamura, Shigeru ^a   Furukawa, Akio ^a   Sasaki, Tatsuya ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical switch; Nonlinear optics; Optical communication; Semiconductor optical amplifier

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SWITCHING;

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY (AOSPT); ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 3142696178     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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