10-Gb/s optical buffer memory using a polarization bistable VCSEL

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E92-C, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 957-963

  Mori, Takashi ^a,b,c   Sato, Yuuki ^a,d   Kawaguchi, Hitoshi ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c ANRITSU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

All optical signal processing; Optical buffer memory; Optical logic; Polarization bistability; Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DETUNING FREQUENCY; OPTICAL AND GATE; OPTICAL BUFFER MEMORY; OPTICAL LOGIC; POLARIZATION BISTABILITY; POLARIZATION STATE; RATE EQUATIONS;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 70350538644     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E92.C.957     Document Type: Article

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