The role of input chirp on phase shifters based on slow and fast light effects in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1404-1413

  Xue, Weiqi ^a   Chen, Yaohui ^a   Öhman, Filip ^a   Mørk, Jesper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; SLOW LIGHT;

INITIAL CHIRP; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTICAL FILTERING; OPTICAL SIGNALS; OPTIMUM VALUE; PERTURBATIVE APPROACH; PHASE ADVANCE; SLOW AND FAST LIGHT;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 59749092422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001404     Document Type: Article

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