Optical buffer with higher delay-bandwidth product in a two-ring system

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1796-1807

  Mario, Landobasa Yosef ^a   Chin, Mee Koy ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DELAY CIRCUITS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; OPTICAL DEVICES;

DELAY-BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY (EIT); OPTICAL BUFFERS; TWO-RING CONFIGURATIONS;

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 39049121558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001796     Document Type: Article

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