Title :
All-Optical Signal Regeneration and Optical Buffering Using Polarization Bistable VCSELs
Author :
Kawaguchi, Hitoshi
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Mater. Sci., Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol.
Abstract :
Recent progress in applications of polarization bistable VCSELs for all-optical signal processing such as signal regeneration and optical buffering are presented
Keywords :
laser beam applications; laser cavity resonators; light polarisation; optical bistability; optical fibre networks; optical information processing; optical repeaters; packet switching; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; timing jitter; 3R regeneration devices; all-optical network; all-optical signal processing; all-optical signal regeneration; bistable laser diodes; optical buffering; optical communication; optical packet-switching; polarization bistability; timing jitter; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; High speed optical techniques; Materials science and technology; Optical bistability; Optical buffering; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Repeaters; Timing jitter; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; VCSEL; optical buffer; polarization bistability; regeneration;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2006 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nottingham
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0235-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0236-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2006.248297
