Design of SOA-based dual-loop optical buffer with a 3 × 3 collinear coupler: Guideline and optimizations

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2768-2778

  Fu, Songnian ^a   Shum, P ^a   Zhang, Liren ^a   Wu, Chongqing ^b   Liu, A M ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

All optical buffer (OB); All optical packet switching (OPS); Collinear 3 3 fiber coupler; Interferometric switch; Linewidth enhancement factor; Polarization; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PACKET SWITCHING;

INTERFEROMETRIC SWITCH; LINEWIDTH ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; OPTICAL BUFFER; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33746873250     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.876092     Document Type: Article

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