Hiroshi Ishikawa 
Ultrafast All-Optical Signal Processing Devices [PDF ebook] 

CHAPTER 1. Introduction
1.1 Evolution of optical communication systems and devicetechnologies
1.2 Increasing communication traffics and power consumption
1.3 Future networks and technologies
1.4 Ultrafast all-optical signal processing devices
1.5 Overview of the devices and their concepts
1.6 Summary
CHAPTER 2. Light Sources
2.1 Requirement for light sources
2.2 Mode-locked laser diodes
2.3 Electro-absorption modulator (EAM) based signal source
2.4 Summary
CHAPTER 3 Semiconductor optical amplifier basedultrafast signal processing devices
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Fundamental of SOA
3.3 SOA as an ultrafast nonlinear medium
3.4 Use of ultrafast response component by filtering
3.5 Symmetric Mach-Zehnder (SMZ) all-optical gate
3.6 Summary
CHAPTER 4Uni-traveling-carrier photodiode (UTC-PD)and PD-EAM optical gate integrating a UTC-PD and a traveling waveelectro-absorption modulator
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Uni-traveling-carrier photodiode (UTC-PD)
4.3 Concept of new opto-electronic integrated device
4.4 PD-EAM optical gate integrating UTC-PD and TW-EAM
4.5 Summary and prospects
CHAPTER 5 Intersubband transition all-opticalgates
5.1 Operation principle
5.2 Ga N/Al N ISBT gate
5.3 (Cd S/Zn Se)/Be Te ISBT gate
5.4 In Ga As/Al As/Al As Sb ISBT gate
5.5 Cross-phase modulation effect in In Ga As/Al As/Al As Sb ISBTgate
5.6 Summary
CHAPTER 6 Wavelength conversion devices
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Wavelength conversion schemes
6.3 Physics of four-wave mixing in LDs and SOAs
6.4 Wavelength conversion of short pulses using FWM insemiconductor devices
6.5 Experimental results of wavelength conversion using FWM in SOAs and LDs
6.6 The future view of wavelength conversion using FWM
6.7 Summary
CHAPTER 7 Summary and future prospects
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Transmission experiments
7.3 Requirements on devices and prospects
7.4 Summary and future prospects

Dr Hiroshi Ishikawa, Tsukuba, Japan
Dr Ishikawa is the Director of the Ultrafast Photonic Devices Laboratory in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. He worked for research and development of optical semiconductor devices in Fujitsu Labs Ltd from 1972 to 2001. In 2001 he moved to Femtosecond Technology Research Association Central Res. Lab. as a group leader of ultrafast all-optical switching devices. He is at AIST since 2004. He is a member of Japan Society of Applied Physics, The Physical Society of Japan, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, and IEEE (Fellow).