Demonstration of optical switch operation of an ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI) with counter-propagating control pulse

Author

Xingzhong, Chen ; Minyu, Yao ; Minghua, Chen ; Jianfeng, Zhang ; Lei, Xu ; Yizhi, Gao ; Chen, Chih-Hsiao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

1

fYear

1999

Firstpage

475

Abstract

We present all-optical switch operation of an ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI) with counter-propagating control pulse. The measured extinction ratio for a 2.5 GHz signal is 10 dB. The geometry of the switch can be used as an optical demultiplexer in an OTDM system and high speed optical logic gate.

Keywords

demultiplexing equipment; high-speed optical techniques; light interferometers; nonlinear optics; optical logic; photonic switching systems; time division multiplexing; 10 dB; 2.5 GHz; OTDM system; all-optical switch operation; counter-propagating control pulse; extinction ratio; high speed optical logic gate; optical demultiplexer; optical switch operation; ultrafast nonlinear interferometer; Geometrical optics; Optical control; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical pulses; Optical switches; Pulse amplifiers; Refractive index; Telecommunication switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

7-5635-0402-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.1999.824604

Filename

824604