A novel method for measuring wide-band dispersion characteristics of electro-optic and thermo-optic switches

Author

Kim, K.H. ; Lee, S.H. ; Kim, S.H. ; Kim, S.M. ; Lee, E.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & OPERA, Inha Univ., Incheon, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report a novel method for measuring wide-band dispersion characteristics of electro-optic (EO) and thermo-optic (TO) switches based on a white-light interferometry. The dispersion spectra of the EO and TO coefficients of the optical switch materials over a wide wavelength can be determined with this method for potential applications of the switches to wide-band wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) signal processing.

Keywords

electro-optical effects; electro-optical switches; light interferometry; optical dispersion; optical variables measurement; thermo-optical devices; thermo-optical effects; dispersion spectra; electro-optic switch; signal processing; thermo-optic switch; white-light interferometry; wide-band dispersion characteristics; wide-band wavelength division multiplexing; Dispersion; Optical fiber couplers; Optical interferometry; Optical materials; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Switching circuits; Voltage; Wavelength measurement; Wideband; Electro-optic; optical switch; thermo-optic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2009. PS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3857-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3856-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2009.5307789

Filename

5307789