PICOSECOND ALL-OPTICAL GATE USING A SATURABLE ABSORBER IN MODE-LOCKEDLASER-DIODES

Authors
OGURA I HASHIMOTO Y KURITA H SHIMIZU T YOKOYAMA H
Citation
I. Ogura et al., PICOSECOND ALL-OPTICAL GATE USING A SATURABLE ABSORBER IN MODE-LOCKEDLASER-DIODES, IEEE photonics technology letters, 10(4), 1998, pp. 603-605
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
10
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
603 - 605
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1998)10:4<603:PAGUAS>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
A novel application of mode-locked laser diodes (MLLD's) for all-optic al gate is described. A saturable absorber (SA) shows 8-ps-absorption recovery and has a small switching energy of 0.9 pJ. For this SA used as an all-optical gate in combination with the all-optical clock recov ery function of MLLD's, all-optical signal processing (demultiplexer a nd repeater) may be possible with a compact and robust configuration. To confirm the all-optical gate operation in MLLD's, 40 to 10 Gb/s all -optical DEMUX is successfully demonstrated.