Necessary temporal condition for optimizing the switching window of the semiconductor-optical-amplifier-based ultrafast nonlinear interferometer in counter-propagating configuration

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Zoiros, Kyriakos E ^a   Botsiaris, Christos ^a   Koukourlis, Christos S ^a   Houbavlis, Thanassis ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

All optical signal processing; All optical switching; Counter propagating operation; Numerical simulation; Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Switching window; Ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CORE SWITCHING MODULE; COUNTER-PROPAGATING OPERATION; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; SWITCHING WINDOW; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR INTERFEROMETER;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33847709454     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2393089     Document Type: Article

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