Recent advances in photonic processing

Author

Lucek, J.K. ; Manning, R.J. ; Smith, K.

Author_Institution

British Telecom Res. Labs., Ipswich, UK

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1994

Firstpage

37

Abstract

Summary form only given. One way of catering for the high demand likely to be placed upon the capacity of telecommunication networks of the 21st century is optical time division multiplexing (OTDM). In association with these ultra-high speed optical pipes, a variety of processing schemes are required in order to facilitate the manipulation and management of the data throughout the network. At these high speeds, switching must be performed on the timescale of a few picoseconds. Therefore, all-optical photonic processing technologies will have a key role to play in performing essential routing functions

Keywords

time division multiplexing; 100 Gbit/s; data throughout; high demand; high speeds; optical time division multiplexing; photonic processing; picosecond optical switching; processing schemes; telecommunication network capacity; telecommunication routing functions; ultra-high speed optical pipes; Clocks; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber devices; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Routing; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1994. LEOS '94 Conference Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1470-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1994.586878

Filename

586878