Optical label processing by multiwavelength sampling using a switching-wavelength pulsed carrier in an interferometric wavelength converter configuration

Author

Lee, K.L. ; Chan, A.W.L. ; Shu, C. ; Nirmalathas, A. ; Lim, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Vic., Australia

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

7-11 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

849

Abstract

The use of a switching-wavelength pulsed carrier for multiwavelength sampling of optical labels which can then be processed by low speed electronic parallel processors is proposed. This is demonstrated using cross phase modulation (XPM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier based Mach-Zehder interferometer (SOA-MZI) in conjunction with a switching-wavelength pulsed carrier.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; multiprotocol label switching; optical modulation; optical wavelength conversion; phase modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Mach-Zehder interferometer; cross phase modulation; electronic parallel processors; interferometric wavelength converter; multiwavelength sampling; optical label processing; semiconductor optical amplifier; switching-wavelength pulsed carrier; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase modulation; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Sampling methods; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8557-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363507

Filename

1363507