Active microring optical integrator associated with electroabsorption modulators for high speed low light power loadable and erasable optical memory unit

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12835-12848

  Ding, Yunhong ^a   Zhang, Xiaobei ^a   Zhang, Xinliang ^a   Huang, Dexiu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; DIGITAL STORAGE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MODULATORS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION NOISE; ENERGY BAND MODELS; HIGH-SPEED LOW-POWER; MEMORY OPERATIONS; MEMORY PERFORMANCE; OPTICAL INTEGRATORS; OPTICAL MEMORY UNITS; STEP-FUNCTION RESPONSE;

ELECTROABSORPTION MODULATORS;

EID: 67749088333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012835     Document Type: Article

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