Performance investigation of semiconductor optical amplifier-based ultrafast nonlinear interferometer in nontrivial switching mode

Optical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Zoiros, Kyriakos E ^a   Avramidis, Pashalis ^a   Koukourlis, Chrstos S ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

All optical signal processing; Modeling; Nontrivial switching mode; Q factor; Semiconductor optical amplifier (soa); Ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (uni)

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MODELING; NONTRIVIAL SWITCHING MODE; Q-FACTOR; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR INTERFEROMETER (UNI);

INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SWITCHING;

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EID: 70349696857     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3028348     Document Type: Article

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