Abstract
Interferometers employing semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) have been widely used as all optical switches.1 Typically these switches are driven by short light pulses generated by mode- locked semiconductor lasers. This paper shows how the SOA based interferometers themselves can provide a new source of short light pulses.
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