Performance investigation of all-optical clock recovery circuit based on Fabry-Pérot filter and semiconductor optical amplifier assisted Sagnac switch

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Vardakas, John S ^a   Zoiros, Kyriakos E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

All optical clock recovery; All optical signal processing; Continuous wave holding light; Fabry P rot filter; Numerical simulation; Optical time division multiplexing; Semiconductor optical amplifier; Semiconductor optical amplifier assisted Sagnac switch

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ALL-OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY; CONTINOUS-WAVE HOLDING LIGHT; SAGNAC SWITCH;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 36048949062     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2768956     Document Type: Article

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