XPM based optical switch using SOA

Author

Mehra, Rajesh ; Acharya, Sanjeev

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Gov. Eng. Coll. Ajmer, Ajmer, India

fYear

2014

fDate

12-13 July 2014

Firstpage

351

Lastpage

354

Abstract

In this paper an optical switch is realized using SOA´s in a Mach-Zehnder (SOA-MZI) configuration, which is based on cross-phase modulation (XPM) property in semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) and interference structure. It was operated at 10 Gbit/s. The phase of the signal changes in SOA by the optical power injected in the SOA. The MZI structure provides a method to transform phase shift into amplitude variations. The simulation results verify the switching action of the optical switch with a better on off contrast ratio of 29.73dB at 1554 nm, one of the center wavelengths of ITU 100-GHz grid covering the C and L bands.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical modulation; optical switches; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; C band; L band; Mach-Zehnder configuration; SOA; XPM; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cross-phase modulation; frequency 100 GHz; interference structure; optical switch; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength 1554 nm; Interference; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical switches; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; SOA; XPM; optical switch;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Propagation and Computer Technology (ICSPCT), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ajmer

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3139-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSPCT.2014.6884918

Filename

6884918