Title :
Reconfigurable optical interconnection controlled by light, with photorefractive technique
Author :
Okamoto, Atsushi ; Nakada, Tsutomu ; Honma, Satoshi
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan
Abstract :
This report suggests a new method in which the use of four-wave mixing with the photorefractive effect and erase beam as a switch can achieve reconfigurable interconnection by optical control. Also, it shows testing examples of 4/spl times/4 optical interconnection with BaTiO/sub 3/ crystal.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical control; optical interconnections; optical switches; photorefractive effect; BaTiO/sub 3/; crystal; erase beam; four-wave mixing; optical control; optical switch; optical vector multipliers; photorefractive effect; photorefractive technique; reconfigurable optical interconnection; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Lighting control; Nonlinear optics; Optical control; Optical interconnections; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical switches; Photorefractive effect;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference
Conference_Location :
Beijing, China
Print_ISBN :
7-5635-0402-8
DOI :
10.1109/APCC.1999.824565
