On ultrafast optical switching based on quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers in nonlinear interferometers

It is shown that interferometers containing quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifiers can be effective for ultrafast cross-phase modulation and digital signal processing with low dependence on the specific random data pattern.

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