Progress in femtosecond technology for ultrafast communication networks

Author

Wada, Osamu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Kobe Univ., Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

5-8 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

357

Abstract

Summary form only given. An overview of the recent progress of ultrafast all-optical devices being developed for the application to optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM) communication and signal processing systems is given. In parallel with active on-going development of wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) systems, OTDM is another indispensable technique to support the rapidly increasing demand of system throughput. We review recent development of femtosecond all-optical devices such as semiconductor laser light sources, pulse compression devices, and all-optical switches.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical pulse compression; optical switches; semiconductor lasers; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 1 Tbit/s; OTDM; WDM; all-optical switches; femtosecond technology; fs all-optical devices; optical communication equipment; optical pulse compression devices; optical signal processing; optical time-division multiplexing; semiconductor laser light sources; ultrafast communication networks; wavelength-division multiplexing systems; Optical communication equipment; Optical pulse compression; Optical switches; Semiconductor lasers; Time division multiplexing; Ultrafast optics; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2002. International Topical Meeting on

Print_ISBN

4-88552-187-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2002.1158938

Filename

1158938