Cascaded nonlinear interactions for photonic time and wavelength switch constructed using a fiber loop interferometer incorporated with a PPLN waveguide

Author

Lee, K.L. ; Nirmalathas, A. ; Shinada, S. ; Wada, N. ; Miyazaki, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We have demonstrated an all-optical time and wavelength switch using cascaded second-order nonlinearities of a PPLN waveguide incorporated in a fiber based loop interferometer. Switching efficiency as high as 90.3% has been achieved.

Keywords

light interferometry; lithium compounds; optical fibre communication; optical frequency conversion; optical materials; optical pumping; optical waveguides; packet switching; photonic switching systems; LiNbO₃; all-optical time switch; all-optical wavelength switch; cascaded second-order nonlinearities; cascaded sum frequency generation; difference frequency generation; fiber based loop interferometer; periodically poled lithum niobate waveguide; pump-probe experiment; switching efficiency; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Switches; (060.4510) Optical communications; (070.4340) Nonlinear optical signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628100

Filename

4628100