An ultrafast wavelength conversion using temporal gratings

Author

Hakimi, H. ; Hakimi, F.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

344

Lastpage

345

Abstract

Summary form only given.The capability of rapid wavelength tuning and conversion is a long-sought-after goal in a fiberoptic communications networks. This need specially rises in designing and managing future all optical networks (AON) and ever increasing channels in fiberoptic communication systems. Currently, there are techniques for add/drop switching, however the speed of these devices (about 2 KHz) are not suitable to cover the need of the future AONs. In this paper, we report a new wavelength conversion method by utilizing an array of coherent pulses which acts as temporal grating in a dispersive medium such as an optical fiber. To describe the new method, we refer to the analogy between spatial diffraction and temporal dispersion.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre networks; optical switches; optical tuning; optical wavelength conversion; add/drop switching; coherent pulses; dispersive medium; fiberoptic communications networks; optical fiber; rapid wavelength tuning; spatial diffraction; temporal dispersion; temporal grating; temporal gratings; ultrafast wavelength conversion; All-optical networks; Communication networks; Gratings; Optical arrays; Optical design; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical tuning; Optical wavelength conversion; Wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.907093

Filename

907093