Title :
High-speed all-optical gate switching experiment in a Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser amplifier
Author_Institution :
NTT Electrical Communications Laboratories, Yokosuka, Japan
Abstract :
Optical gate switching for one signal beam using another control beam is presented in a Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser amplifier. High-speed switching, where the signal output is on without the control beam and off with it, is demonstrated employing modulation of an 800 Mbit/s pulse pattern.
Keywords :
amplifiers; logic gates; optical bistability; optical information processing; optical modulation; semiconductor junction lasers; switching; 800 Mbit/s; Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser amplifier; control beam; high speed switching; megabit pulse pattern; modulation; nonlinear optics; optical gate switching; signal beam;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19870649
