Title :
High capacity demonstration of a compact regrowth-free integrated 4 × 4 quantum well semiconductor optical amplifier based switch
Author :
Wang, H. ; Aw, E.T. ; Thompson, M.G. ; Wonfor, A. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge
Abstract :
A fibre-to-fibre lossless integrated 4times4 SOA switch achieves an IPDR ~6 dB at <2 dB penalty for 8lambdatimes10 Gb/s. 10 Gb/s cascaded operation of two 4times4 switches is demonstrated.
Keywords :
optical switches; quantum well devices; semiconductor optical amplifiers; cascaded operation; compact regrowth-free integrated switch; fibre-to-fibre lossless switch; quantum well; semiconductor optical amplifier; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729379
