Performance of single semiconductor optical amplifier-based ultrafast nonlinear interferometer with clock-control signals timing deviation in dual rail-switching mode

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Siarkos, Thanassis ^a   Zoiros, Kyriakos E ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

all optical signal processing; dual rail switching mode; modelling; Q factor; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); timing deviation; ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI)

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DUAL RAIL; MODELLING; Q-FACTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOA); TIMING DEVIATION; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR INTERFEROMETER;

CLOCKS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 80755184862     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3202837     Document Type: Article

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