Title :
Performance limits of delay lines based on optical amplifiers
Author :
Khurgin, Jacob B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECE, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD
Abstract :
Performance of tunable buffers based on optical amplifiers and its improvement using gain flattening is analyzed. A simple analytical expression indicates that to store more than a couple of bits unrealistically high gain is required.
Keywords :
laser beams; optical delay lines; optical fibre amplifiers; gain flattening; optical delay lines; optical fiber amplifiers; tunable buffers; Delay lines; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical buffering; Optical packet switching; Optical scattering; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; (070.4560) Optical data processing; (140.4480) Optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627775
