All-optical circulating shift register using a semiconductor optical amplifier in a fibre loop mirror
All-optical circulating shift register using a semiconductor optical amplifier in a fibre loop mirror
- Author(s): A.J. Poustie ; R.J. Manning ; K.J. Blow
- DOI: 10.1049/el:19960804
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- Author(s): A.J. Poustie 1 ; R.J. Manning 1 ; K.J. Blow 1
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1: BT Laboratories, Ipswich, United Kingdom
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1: BT Laboratories, Ipswich, United Kingdom
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Volume 32, Issue 13,
20 June 1996,
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1215 – 1216
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960804 , Print ISSN 0013-5194, Online ISSN 1350-911X
The authors experimentally demonstrate an all-optical circulating shift register in which the nonlinear element is a semiconductor optical amplifier. This device shows the potential for low latency, high speed, low power all-optical processing.
Inspec keywords: shift registers; optical switches; optical information processing; optical fibres; optical logic; semiconductor lasers; mirrors
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Subjects: Optical information, image and video signal processing; Optical logic devices and optical computing techniques; Nonlinear optics and devices; Fibre optics; Semiconductor lasers
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