Study on the cascadability of a SOA-assisted Sagnac switch pair

Optik

Volumn 121, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1180-1193

  Zoiros, K E ^a   Kalaitzi, A ^a   Koukourlis, C S ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cascadability; Contrast ratio; Modeling; Output to control port fanout; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) assisted Sagnac switch

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL CIRCUITS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MODELS;

BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; CASCADABILITY; CONTRAST RATIO; FAN-OUT; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; SAGNAC SWITCHES; SOA ASSISTED SAGNAC SWITCHES; THEORETICAL TREATMENTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 77955232131     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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