Semiconductor optical amplifiers are useful building blocks for all-optical gates as
wavelength converters and OTDM demultiplexers. The paper reviews the progress from …

Covering high-energy ultrafast amplifiers and solid-state, fiber, and diode lasers, this
reference examines recent developments in high-speed laser technology. It presents a …

Broader bandwidths, denser channel spacing, and higher signal intensities all makes
nonlinear effects more critical to the performance of telecommunications systems. This …

A comprehensive treatise on the components and devices of the lightwave explosion
Multiple advances in lightwave technology have led to a veritable overload of global …

The processing of optical signals in the optical domain is an important issue resulting from
the desire to take advantage of the full bandwidth of the optical fiber. In this paper, we …

Recent progress in optical time-division-multiplexed (TDM) transmission technologies is
reviewed including optical short pulse generation, time-division multiplexing/demultiplexing …

We demonstrate 100-Gbit/s bitwise logic in an all-optical semiconductor optical amplifier–
based switching device, the ultrafast nonlinear interferometer. To the best of our knowledge …

This review discusses the physical mechanisms of absorptive and dispersive nonlinearity in
amplifiers resulting from interband and intraband electron transitions, with an assessment of …

All-optical shift registers are basic building modules for the development of ultra-high speed
optical time division multiplexing networks. In this paper, we review the progress that has …

A new family of two-dimensional (2-D) wavelength-hopping time-spreading codes, which
employs wavelength hopping algebraically under prime-sequence permutations on top of …