Ultrafast All-Optical Signal Processing Devices

<b>Semiconductor-based Ultra-Fast All-Optical Signal Processing Devices –a key technology for the next generation of ultrahigh bandwidth optical communication systems!</b> <p>The introduction of ultra-fast communication systems based on all-optical signal processing is considered to be one of the most promising ways to handle the rapidly increasing global communication traffic. Such systems will enable real time super-high definition moving pictures such as high reality TV-conference, remote diagnosis and surgery, cinema entertainment and many other applications with small power consumption. The key issue to realize such systems is to develop ultra-fast optical devices such as light sources, all-optical gates and wavelength converters.</p> <p><i>Ultra-Fast All-Optical Signal Processing Devices</i> discusses the state of the art development of semiconductor-based ultrafast all-optical devices, and their various signal processing applications for bit-rates 100Gb/s to 1Tb/s.</p> <p><b>Ultra-Fast All-Optical Signal Processing Devices:</b></p> <ul> <li>Provides a thorough and in-depth treatment of the most recent achievements in ultrafast all-optical devices</li> <li>Discusses future networks with applications such as HD-TV and super-high definition moving screens as a motivating background for devices research</li> <li>Covers mode-locked semiconductor lasers, electro-absorption modulator based 160Gb/s signal sources, SOA based symmetric Mach-Zehnder type all-optical gates, intersubband transition gate device, and more</li> <li>Explains the technical issues behind turning the ultra-fast optical devices into practical working tools</li> <li>Examples of above 160Gb/s transmission experiments</li> <li>Discusses future prospects of the ultra-fast signal processing devices</li> </ul> <p>This invaluable reference will provide device researchers and engineers in industry, researchers at universities (including graduate students, and post doctorial researchers and professors) and research institutes with a thorough understanding of ultrahigh bandwidth optical communication systems. Device and communication market watchers will also find this book useful.</p>