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.

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 June 2006

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

27

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nottingham

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0235-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0236-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2006.248297

Filename

4013628