DocumentCode
3497511
Title
Self-switching using SOA-assisted Sagnac interferometer
Author
Ahmadi, Vahid ; Jamali, Morteza ; Razaghi, Mohammad
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Tarbiat Modares Univ., Tehran, Iran
fYear
2012
fDate
28-31 Aug. 2012
Firstpage
69
Lastpage
70
Abstract
We propose and investigate self-switching mechanism by Sagnac interferometer based semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) for subpicosecond pulses. The various switch characteristics such as phase differentiation between propagated pulses, SOA gain and switch extinction ratio all in time domain are shown.
Keywords
Sagnac interferometers; high-speed optical techniques; light propagation; optical switches; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA gain; SOA-assisted Sagnac interferometer; Sagnac interferometer based semiconductor optical amplifier; phase differentiation; propagated pulses; self-switching mechanism; subpicosecond pulses; switch extinction ratio; time domain; Couplers; Extinction ratio; Optical pulses; Optical switches; Sagnac interferometers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2012 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Shanghai
ISSN
2158-3234
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1602-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NUSOD.2012.6316534
Filename
6316534
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