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Analysis of the Switching Characteristics of TOAD

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The dynamic gain responses of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) in a terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer (TOAD) to intense control pulses with different input energies and pulse widths are investigated. The influences on the switching characteristics of TOAD for different control pulse energies, widths, loop time asymmetry, and time delays between the signal pulse and control pulse are studied and analyzed in detail. The theoretical analysis coincides well with the experimental result.

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China

    Huangang Pang, Xiaofei Liu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Shibao Wu, Xiaohan Sun & Mingde Zhang

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Pang, H., Liu, X., Zhang, Z. et al. Analysis of the Switching Characteristics of TOAD. International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves 21, 905–914 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026493500863

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