Abstract
The features of an ultra-fast all-optical SOA-based interferometric de-multiplexer are investigated. It is shown how a proper management of the SOAs nonlinearities can improve the de-multiplexer performances, preserving the extracted channel integrity from the pattern-dependence.
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