10 Gb/s operation of a multiwavelength buffer architecture employing a monolithically integrated all-optical interferometric Michelson wavelength converter

Author

Danielsen, S.L. ; Mikkelsen, B. ; Joergensen, C. ; Durhuus, T. ; Stubkjaer, K.E.

Author_Institution

Electromagn. Inst., Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

8

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

3/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

434

Lastpage

436

Abstract

Optical cell buffering at 10 Gb/s is accomplished with a new simple multiwavelength fiber loop memory technique. The architecture uses wavelength converters to select the cell delay and in the experiment wavelength conversion is obtained by use of a monolithically integrated Michelson interferometer employing semiconductor optical amplifiers.

Keywords

Michelson interferometers; integrated optoelectronics; optical fibre networks; optical frequency conversion; optical storage; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; cell delay; monolithically integrated Michelson interferometer; monolithically integrated all-optical interferometric Michelson wavelength converter; multiwavelength buffer architecture; optical cell buffering; semiconductor optical amplifiers; simple multiwavelength fiber loop memory technique; Bit rate; Buffer storage; Optical buffering; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical wavelength conversion; Propagation delay; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.481141

Filename

481141