Title :
Low interchannel crosstalk wavelength routing switch based on bulk acousto-optic tunable filters
Author_Institution :
Center for Res. & Educ. in Opt. & Lasers, Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel bulk acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) based wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical routing switch free-space architecture that is designed to greatly suppress leakage noise via both spatial and electronic noise blocking techniques. Such a WDM switch, to the best of the author´s knowledge, has not been proposed uses bulk-optics
Keywords :
acousto-optical filters; acousto-optical switches; optical crosstalk; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM network; bulk acousto-optic tunable filter; electronic noise blocking; free-space architecture; interchannel crosstalk; leakage noise; spatial noise blocking; wavelength routing switch; High speed optical techniques; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength routing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3895-2
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1997.645457
