Ultrafast all-optical switching using four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers for wavelength routing

Author

Kawaguchi, Hitoshi

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

4-8 July 2004

Firstpage

33

Abstract

All-optical switching and wide-range wavelength conversion have been demonstrated at 160 Gbit/s using four-wave mixing in a semiconductor optical amplifier. We used the asymmetrical multiple-quantum-well semiconductor optical amplifier which allows for a wide 3 dB gain-bandwidth. The cross-correlation measurements show the high-speed switching capability for wavelength routing in optical time division multiplexing networks.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical wavelength conversion; photonic switching systems; quantum well devices; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network routing; time division multiplexing; 160 Gbit/s; asymmetrical multiple-quantum-well semiconductor optical amplifier; four-wave mixing; gain-bandwidth; high-speed switching; optical time division multiplexing; ultrafast all-optical switching; wavelength conversion; wavelength routing; Four-wave mixing; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical wavelength conversion; Quantum well devices; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Time measurement; Wavelength measurement; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2004. Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8343-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2004.1361962

Filename

1361962