An experiment on high-speed optical time-division switching

Suzuki, S.; Terakado, T.; Komatsu, K.; Nagashima, K.; Suzuki, Akira; Kondo, M.

doi:10.1109/jlt.1986.1074819

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“…The way to achieve the above result is by a bistable laser diode 6 . This bistable laser operates as an optical flipflop which can be set and reset by optical signals.…”

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Photonic switching architectures with logic cells

González-Marcos

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2003

SPIE Proceedings

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Possible switching architectures, with Optically Programmable Logic Cells -OPLCs -will be reported in this paper. These basic units, previously employed by us for some other applications mainly in optical computing, will be employed as main elements to switch optical communications signals. The main aspect to be considered is that because the internal components of these cells have nonlinear behaviors, namely either pure bistable or SEED-like properties, several are the possibilities to be obtained. Moreover, because their properties are dependent, under certain condition, of the signal wavelength, they are apt to be employed in WDM systems and the final result will depend on the corresponding optical signal frequency. We will give special emphasis to the case where self-routing is achieved, namely to structures of the Batcher or Banyan type. In these cases, as it will be shown, there is the possibility to route any packet input to a certain direction according to its first bits. The number of possible outputs gives the number of bits needed to route signals. An advantage of this configuration is that a very versatile behavior may be allowed. The main one is the possibility to obtain configurations with different kinds of behavior, namely, Strictly Nonblocking, Wide-Sense Nonblocking or Rearrangeably Nonblocking as well as to eliminate switching conflicts at a certain intermediate stages.

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“…The way to achieve the above result is by a bistable laser diode 6 . This bistable laser operates as an optical flipflop which can be set and reset by optical signals.…”

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Photonic switching architectures with logic cells

González-Marcos

Pereda

2003

SPIE Proceedings

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“…100 pW and 1 ns). An experiment involving time slot interchange is shown in figure 8, involving LiNbOg multiplexer/demultiplexer devices as well as optical bistable elements (Suzuki et al 1986). (Suzuki 1986).…”

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“…An experiment involving time slot interchange is shown in figure 8, involving LiNbOg multiplexer/demultiplexer devices as well as optical bistable elements (Suzuki et al 1986). (Suzuki 1986). Two 4 x 4 LiNbOa optical switches as well as four bistable optical elements (Tomita et al 1987) to pe arrangement would require 8 bits of memory.…”

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Lithium niobate devices in switching and multiplexing

Thylén

1989

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A

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Integrated-optics devices in lithium niobate have reached a significant maturity in recent years, and several complex devices have been demonstrated. In addition to performing modulation of light in fibre-optic transmission systems, lithium niobate devices currently offer the only components for photonic switching. Thus lithium niobate devices can be used as spatial, temporal and wavelength switches in high-speed and low-speed systems. In these systems electronic signals control the lithium niobate switches, which process the optical information and which are optically interfaced to optical fibres. Hence I am not concerned with all-optical switching. Examples of applications are multiplexing and demultiplexing of high-speed data streams, bit-by-bit or word-by-word switching in, for example, time-space-time stages or in access couplers in high-speed bus systems. Switch arrays, generally operating at lower speeds (below 1 GHz), can be used for network rearrangement, digital crossconnect, protection switching and generally in situations where the frequency and code transparency of the devices can be used to advantage. The status of lithium niobate devices for switching is reviewed, and performance limitations (including those imposed by polarization properties) and trade-offs are discussed, emphasizing time- and space-switching devices and applications.

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“…Bistable laser diodes wich incorporate one or more regions of saturable absorption are becoming increasely attractive for applications such as wavelength conversion [1], high-speed switching [2], and all-optical clock extraction [3]. The research of two-contact absorption bistable laser diodes (TABLs) has been the subject of a number of theoretical papers [4][5][6].…”

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Studying Two-contact Bistable Diode Lasers with Wavelength Dependent Rate Equations

Wu¹,

Xia²,

Chen³

1996

Journal of Optical Communications

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Within the frame of the mean-field single-mode approximation, taking into account the fact that the peak wavelengths of the gain profiles of the pump and absorption regions of two-contact absorption bistable laser diodes (TABLs) are different due to the difference of the carrier densities of the two regions, Lorentzian functions describing the gain profiles of the two regions have been restored in the rate equations applicable to TABLs. Taking into consideration that the output wavelength reflect the peak wavelength of the overall gain, an extra equation has been added to the rate equations. As a result, various characteristics of TABLs including the output wavelength have been investigated.

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An experiment on high-speed optical time-division switching

Cited by 84 publications

References 3 publications

Photonic switching architectures with logic cells

Photonic switching architectures with logic cells

Lithium niobate devices in switching and multiplexing

Studying Two-contact Bistable Diode Lasers with Wavelength Dependent Rate Equations

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