A proposal for fast optical switch using two-photon absorption coupled ring-resonator to MZI

Author

Rostami, A. ; Mirebrahimi, S.M.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Tabriz Univ., Iran

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

16-18 Nov. 2005

Abstract

Optical switches are very important devices for high-speed optical communications, optical digital integrated circuits, and optical conditioners such as analog to digital converters. High speed optical switching is one of the most important topics in this domain. For this purpose, we investigate the effect of two-photon absorption phenomenon on switching speed in a novel structure. In this paper, Kerr-like nonlinear ring resonator coupled to MZI with considerable two-photon absorption coefficient as a fast optical switch is investigated.

Keywords

absorption coefficients; optical resonators; optical switches; two-photon processes; MZI; fast optical switch; high-speed optical communications; nonlinear ring resonator; optical conditioners; optical digital integrated circuits; two-photon absorption phenomenon; Absorption; Coupling circuits; High speed optical techniques; Integrated optics; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical coupling; Optical ring resonators; Optical switches; Proposals; MZI; Ring-resonator; Two-photon absorption based optical switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 2005. Jointly held with the 2005 IEEE 7th Malaysia International Conference on Communication., 2005 13th IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1531-2216

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0000-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2005.1635437

Filename

1635437