A novel fast optical switch based on two cascaded Terahertz Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexers (TOAD)

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-23

  Wang, Bing C ^a   Baby, Varghese ^a   Tong, Wilson ^a   Xu, Lei ^a   Friedman, Michelle ^a   Runser, Robert J ^a   Glesk, Ivan ^a   Prucnal, Paul R ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MIRRORS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLITONS;

FIBER LOOPS; SWITCHING WINDOWS; TETRAHERTZ OPTICAL ASYMMETRIC DEMULTIPLEXERS (TOAD);

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0242413461     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000015     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. M. W. Chbat, B. J. Hong, M. N. Islam, C E Soccolich, F. R. Prucnal "Ultrafast Soliton Trapping AND Gate," J. Lightwave Teohnol. 10, 2011-2016 (1992)
2. N. J. Doran and D Wood "Non-linear optical loop mirror," Opt. Lett. 14, 56-58 (1988)
3. J. P. Sokoloff, P. R. Prucnal, I. Glesk, and M. Kane "a Terahertz optical asymmetric de-multiplexer (TOAD)," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 5, 787-790 (1993)
4. M. Eiselt "Optical loop mirror with semiconductor laser amplifier," Electron. Lett. 28, 1505-1507 (1992)
5. N. S. Patel, K. L. Hall, K. A. Rauschenbach "40-Gbits cascadable all-optical logic with an ultrafast nonlinear interferometer," Opt. Lett. 21 (18), 1466-1468 (1996)
6. S. Nakamura, K. Tajima, and Y. Sugimoto "Experimental investigation on high-speed switching characterstics of a novel symmetric mach-Zehnder all-optical switch," Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 283-285 (1994)
7. K. I. Kang, I. Glesk, T. G. Chang, P. R. Prucnal, R. K. Boncek "Demonstration of all-optical Mach-Zehnder demultiplexer," Electron. Lett. 31 (9), 749-750 (1995)
8. D. Campi, C. Coriasso "Wavelength conversion technologies," Photonic Netw. Commun. 2, 85-95 (2000)
9. I. Glesk, and P. R. Prucnal, "250-Gbps Self-Clocked Optical TDM with a Polarization-Multiplexed clock," Fiber Integrated Opt. 14, 71-82 (1995)
10. K.-L. Deng, R. J. Runser, P. Toliver, C. Coldwell, D. Zhou, I. Glesk, and P. R. Prucnal, "Demonstration of a highly scalable 100-Gbs OTDM computer interconnect with rapid inter-channel switching capability," Electron. Lett. 34, 2418 (1999).
11. P. Toliver, I. Glesk, and P. R. Prucnal, "All-optical clock and data separation technique for asynchronous packet-switched OTDM networks," Opt. Commun. 173, 101-106 (2000)
12. P. Toliver, K.-L. Deng, I. Glesk, and P. R. Prucnal, "Simultaneous Optical Compression and Decompression of 100 Gb/s OTDM Packets Using a Single TOAD and a Bi-directional Optical Delay Line Lattice," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 11, 1183 (1999)
13. K.-L. Deng, R. J. Runser, P. Toliver, I. Glesk, and P. R. Prucnal, "A highly scalable, rapidly-reconfigurable, multicasting-capable, 100-Gbit/s photonic switched interconnect based upon OTDM technology," J. Lightwave Technol. 18, 1892 (2000)
14. K.-L Deng, R. J. Runser, I. Glesk, and P. R. Prucnal, "Demonstration of Multicasting in a 100-Gb/s OTDM Switched Interconnect," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 12, (5), 558-560 (2000).
15. K. L. Hall, B. S. Robinson "Bit error rate characterisation of 100-Obps all-optical demultiplexers," CTuW1 CLEO'99, (1999)
16. P. Toliver, R. J Runser, I. Glesk, P.R. Prucnal "Comparision of three nonlinear interferometric optical switch geometries," Opt. Commun. 175, 365-373 (2000)
17. K. I. Kang, T. G. Chang, I. Glesk, P. R. Prucnal "Comparison of Sagnac and Mach-Zehnder ultrafast all-optical interferometric switches based on a semiconductor resonant optical nonlinearity," Appl. Opt. 35 (3), 417-426 (1996)
18. R. J. Runser "Interferometric SOA-Based Optical Switches for all-optical processing in communication networks and sampling systems," Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, June 2001, Chapter 2 p. 45-47
19. Y. Ueno, S. Nakamura, K. Tajima "Penalty-free error-free all-optical data pulse regeneration at 84 Gb/s by using a symmetric-Mach-Zehnder-type semiconductor regenerator," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 13, 469-471 (2001)
20. C. Joergensen, S. L. Danielsen, T. Durhuus, B. Mikkelsen, K. E Stubkjaer, N. Vodjdani, F. Ratovelomanana, A. Enard, G. Glastre, D. Rondi, R. Blondeau "Wavelength conversion by optimized monolithic integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 8, 521-523 (1996)