16 x 10 Gb/s WDM bidirectional gating in a semiconductor optical amplifier for optical cross connects exploiting network connection symmetry

In order to further reduce the number of gating elements in space switches, the performance of 10 Gb/s wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) bidirectional semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) gating is investigated, We demonstrate for the first time that a conventional SOA can be used for bidirectional WDM gating operation at 10 Gb/s by the use of holding light injection Original language English Journal I E E E Photonics Technology Letters Volume 12 Issue number 6 Pages (from-to) 702-704 ISSN 1041-1135 DOIs https://doi.org/10.1109/68.849090 Publication status Published - 2000 Bibliographical note Copyright: 2000 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE