All-optical multiwavelength switching for hybrid WDM/TDM demultiplexing and signal processing

Author

Mathason, B.K. ; Nitta, Isamu ; Shi, Hongyu ; Alphonse, G.A. ; Connolly, J.C. ; Delfyett, Peter J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

347

Lastpage

348

Abstract

Summary form only given. Hybrid approaches to optical communications and signal processing systems have previously been proposed that exploit the parallelism of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and the speed of time division multiplexing (TDM). In this paper, we demonstrate an all-optical switch capable of simultaneously switching multiple wavelength channels with high-speed capability using a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) asymmetrically placed inside a loop mirror.

Keywords

demultiplexing; optical switches; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; all-optical multiwavelength switching; high-speed capability; hybrid WDM/TDM demultiplexing; loop mirror; optical communications; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal processing; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; Demultiplexing; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Signal processing; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Time division multiplexing; Voltage; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.834287

Filename

834287