Optically injected semiconductor lasers for network transmission and switching

Author

Adams, M.J. ; Chlouverakis, K. ; Al-Aswad, K. ; Hurtado, A. ; Henning, I.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

3-7 July 2005

Firstpage

91

Abstract

Recent results on optically injected lasers are reviewed in the context of network transmission and all-optical switching. Emphasis is placed on understanding the fundamental physical mechanisms determining the operating conditions for stable injection locking between master and slave lasers. Two-section lasers are found to offer an additional degree of freedom that is capable of giving an enhanced locking region compared to a single-section optically-injected laser.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; semiconductor lasers; telecommunication switching; all-optical switching; injection locking; master laser; network switching; network transmission; nonlinear laser dynamics; optically injected semiconductor laser; slave laser; Laser theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical feedback; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Resonance; Semiconductor lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2005, Proceedings of 2005 7th International Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9236-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2005.1506106

Filename

1506106