Optical bistability in a nonlinear-SOA-based fiber ring resonator

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7797, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Costanzo Caso, Pablo A ^a,b   Jin, Yiye ^a   Granieri, Sergio ^a   Siahmakoun, Azad ^a  

^a ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES OPTICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Fiber ring resonator; Interferometry; Nonlinear device; Optical bistability; Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)

Indexed keywords

BISTABLE SWITCHES; FIBER LOOPS; FIBER RING RESONATORS; GAIN PROPERTIES; NON-LINEAR DEVICES; NON-LINEAR FIBER; NONLINEAR EFFECT; OPERATING FREQUENCY; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); SWITCHING SPEED; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS;

DATA PROCESSING; FIBERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 77958128543     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.860739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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