All-optical circulating shift register using a semiconductoroptical amplifier in a fibre loop mirror
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- 20 June 1996
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 32 (13) , 1215-1216
Abstract
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.Keywords
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