Title :
Semiconductor devices for all-optical signal processing
Author :
Poustie, Alistair
Author_Institution :
Center for Integrated Photonics, Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
All-optical signal processing has been made practical by the use of semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) devices to realise integrated all-optical switching gates. Recent advances in SOA based devices and their performance is described.
Keywords :
integrated optics; optical information processing; optical logic; optical switches; semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical signal processing; all-optical switching gates; integrated switching gates; semiconductor devices; semiconductor optical amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
