Optically controlled time and wavelength switch using cascaded nonlinearities of a PPLN waveguide in a fibre loop interferometer

Author

Lee, K.L. ; Nirmalathas, A. ; Lim, C. ; Shinada, S. ; Wada, N. ; Miyazaki, T.

Author_Institution

ARC Special Res. Centre for Ultra-Broadband Inf. Networks (CUBIN), Melbourne Univ., Melbourne, VIC

fYear

2006

fDate

10-13 July 2006

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

21

Abstract

By exploiting cascaded second-order nonlinearities of a PPLN waveguide incorporated in a fibre based loop interferometer, we have experimentally demonstrated an optically controlled time and wavelength switch with a switching efficiency as high as 90.3%.

Keywords

light interferometers; lithium compounds; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical frequency conversion; optical switches; optical waveguides; LiNbO₃; PPLN waveguide; cascaded second-order nonlinearities; cascaded sum-and-difference frequency generation; fibre based loop interferometer; optically controlled time switch; optically controlled wavelength switch; periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide; switching efficiency; Control nonlinearities; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Optical control; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society, 2006. ACOFT/AOS 2006. Australian Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

Print_ISBN

978-0-9775657-1-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-9775657-1-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519314

Filename

4519314