Simple nonlinear interferometer-based all-optical thresholder and its applications for optical CDMA

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 13114-13122

  Kravtsov, Konstantin ^a   Prucnal, Paul R ^a   Bubnov, Mikhail M ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b FIBER OPTICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; WAVELENGTH;

MULTI-WAVELENGTH OPERATION; NONLINEAR ELEMENTS; NONLINEAR SAGNAC INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL THRESHOLDER;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 35148871182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013114     Document Type: Article

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