SOAs for All-Optical Switching-Techniques for Increasing the Speed

SOAs for All-Optical Switching-Techniques for Increasing the Speed

This paper reviews some of the most recent methods for increasing the speed of operation of all-optical switches based on semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). We concentrate on two approaches; namely, methods to utilise the high-frequency tail of the nonlinear optical response of SOAs, and ways...

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Hauptverfasser: Manning, R.J., Giller, R., Xuelin Yang, Webb, R.P., Cotter, D.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
all-optical signal processing
Filtering
Nonlinear filters
Nonlinear optics
Optical filters
Optical interferometry
Optical signal processing
Optical switches
Optical wavelength conversion
Phase shifting interferometry
semiconductor optical amplifier
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
wavelength conversion
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Zusammenfassung:This paper reviews some of the most recent methods for increasing the speed of operation of all-optical switches based on semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). We concentrate on two approaches; namely, methods to utilise the high-frequency tail of the nonlinear optical response of SOAs, and ways to reduce their gain recovery time.
ISSN:2162-7339
DOI:10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296193