Ultrafast all-optical signal processing based on single semiconductor optical amplifier and optical filtering

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 770-778

  Dong, Jianji ^a,b   Zhang, Xinliang ^a,b   Fu, Songnian ^c   Xu, Jing ^b   Shum, P ^a,c   Huang, Dexiu ^b  

^a IEEE

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Leading trailing edge detection; Logic gates; Optical bandpass filter (OBF); Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); Wavelength conversion (WC)

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; EDGE DETECTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FILTRATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FUZZY LOGIC; LOGIC DEVICES; LOGIC GATES; MIXING; MODULATION; OPERATING ROOMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PUMPS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGY;

(140.4480)OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; 40 GB/S; ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CROSS PHASE MODULATION (PMD); CROSS-GAIN MODULATION (XGM); DETUNING; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NON-LINEARITIES; NON-RETURN TO ZERO (NRZ); OPTICAL BANDPASS FILTER (OBPF); OPTICAL FILTERING; OR GATES; PUMP PROBE SCHEME; PUMP SIGNALS; RECONFIGURABLE LOGIC (RL); RETURN TO ZERO (RZ) FORMAT; SEMI CONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); ULTRA-FAST; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION (WC);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 45249119726     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.916248     Document Type: Article

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