• DocumentCode
    1713754
  • Title

    Pattern Effect Mitigation in the Turbo-Switch

  • Author

    Giller, R. ; Yang, X. ; Manning, R.J. ; Webb, R.P. ; Cotter, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    By measuring cross-gain modulation in a turbo-switch, we demonstrate that appropriate control of the optical power in this high-speed all-optical switch results in greatly reduced dependence on the input data pattern. We further show that the non-linear patterning may even be reversed for high internal powers.
  • Keywords
    optical burst switching; optical switches; photonic switching systems; semiconductor optical amplifiers; cross-gain modulation; high-speed all-optical switch; optical power; pattern effect mitigation; photonic switching systems; semiconductor optical amplifier; turbo-switch; wavelength conversion; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical control; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; all-optical signal processing; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength conversion;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics in Switching, 2006. PS '06. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Heraklion, Crete
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7803-9790-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7803-9790-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PS.2006.4350159
  • Filename
    4350159