Demonstration of Ultrafast, All-Optical, Low Control Energy, Single Wavelength, Polarization Independent, Cascadable, and Integratable Switch

K. I. Kang; T. G. Chang; I. Glesk; Paul Prucnal; R. K. Boncek

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1995),
paper CPD10

Demonstration of Ultrafast, All-Optical, Low Control Energy, Single Wavelength, Polarization Independent, Cascadable, and Integratable Switch

K. I. Kang, T. G. Chang, I. Glesk, Paul Prucnal, and R. K. Boncek

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1995

Baltimore, Maryland United States
21–26 May 1995
ISBN: 1-55752-400-9

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K. I. Kang, T. G. Chang, I. Glesk, P. Prucnal, and R. K. Boncek, "Demonstration of Ultrafast, All-Optical, Low Control Energy, Single Wavelength, Polarization Independent, Cascadable, and Integratable Switch," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, T. Deutsch, J. Goldsmith, D. Killinger, and G. Valley, eds., Vol. 15 of OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1995), paper CPD10.

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Abstract

Recently developed ultra-fast all optical switches based on the Sagnac and Mach-Zehnder interferometric principle demonstrated a few ps switching window with a small optical control pulse energies by utilizing the resonant optical nonlinearities[l, 2], These switches have good potential for optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) systems. For ultra-fast switches based on the Mach-Zehnder, there are two additional configurations possible with different propagation geometries for the control and data pulses.

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