All-optical N -bits shift register exploiting a ring buffer based on semiconductor optical amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-47

  Lazzeri, Emma ^a   Berrettini, Gianluca ^a   Meloni, Gianluca ^a   Bogoni, Antonella ^b   Potí, Luca ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b CNIT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Buffer memories; optical signal processing; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); shift registers

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ELEMENTS; ALL-OPTICAL; BUFFER MEMORY; BUFFER STRUCTURES; CIRCULAR SHIFT; CLOCK RATE; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FIBER LOOPS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; INPUT SEQUENCE; KERR EFFECTS; OPTICAL BUFFER; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; SCHEME COMPLEXITY;

BIT ERROR RATE; BUFFER AMPLIFIERS; BUFFER STORAGE; ERBIUM; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SHIFT REGISTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 78650530709     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2088116     Document Type: Article

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