Ultrahigh-speed and widely tunable wavelength conversion based on cross-gain modulation in a quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 26, 2011, Pages B551-B559

  Matsuura, Motoharu ^a,b   Raz, Oded ^a   Gomez Agis, Fausto ^a   Calabretta, Nicola ^a   Dorren, Harm J S ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ALL OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERTER; BIT RATES; CROSS GAIN MODULATION; QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; TUNABLE OPERATIONS; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; ULTRA HIGH SPEED; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WIDELY TUNABLE;

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 83455249947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00B551     Document Type: Article

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