• DocumentCode
    2994125
  • Title

    Ultra-Fast Integrable 2Ã\x972 All-Optical Switch for Optical Packet Routing

  • Author

    Berrettini, Gianluca ; Lauri, Edoardo ; Ghelfi, Paolo ; Bogoni, Antonella ; Poti, Luca

  • Author_Institution
    IRCPhoNeT - Scuola Superiore Sant´´ Anna, via Moruzzi 1 - 56124 Pisa (ITALY) gianluca.berrettini@cnit.it
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    24-28 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    An all-optical, integrable, ultra-fast 2×2 spatial switch based on Cross-Gain-Modulation in two Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers is proposed. Bit-Error-Rate measurements confirm the effectiveness of the proposed scheme and its suitability in cascaded configurations.
  • Keywords
    Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber LAN; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Routing; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes, France
  • Print_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801295
  • Filename
    4801295