Dynamic analysis of MZI-SOA all optical switches for balanced switching

Author

Morito, Ken ; Leuthold, Juerg ; Melchior, Hans

Author_Institution

Inst. of Quantum Electron., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

22-25 Sep 1997

Firstpage

81

Abstract

Uniform output powers and high extinction ratios for a Mach-Zehnder interferometer type all optical switch for future optical TDM systems with asymmetrically biased amplifiers and a phase shifter are found in a dynamic analysis for narrow control pulses and optimized switching windows. Here we examine the dynamic switching characteristics of MZI semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) type all optical switches under high speed operation in a time-domain large-signal analysis. The operation conditions of asymmetrically biased SOA´s with uniform data output powers and high and balanced extinction ratios are given

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; MZI semiconductor optical amplifier type all optical switches; MZI-SOA all optical switches; Mach-Zehnder interferometer type all optical switch; asymmetrically biased amplifiers; balanced extinction ratios; balanced switching; dynamic analysis; dynamic switching characteristics; high extinction ratios; high speed operation; narrow control pulses; operation conditions; optical TDM systems; optimized switching windows; phase shifter; time-domain large-signal analysis; uniform data output powers; uniform output powers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

0-85296-697-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:19971423

Filename

628061