All optical demultiplexing based on two-photon absorption in a laser diode

Author

Barry, L.P. ; Thomsen, B.C. ; Dudley, J.M. ; Harvey, J.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Dublin City Univ., Ireland

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

20-24 Sep 1998

Firstpage

111

Abstract

The nonlinear process of two-photon absorption has been used for the construction of an all-optical ultra-fast switch. Our results indicate that the switching window is limited simply by the signal and control pulsewidths. We will demonstrate for the first time the feasibility of using the nonlinear effect of two-photon absorption (TPA) in a commercial laser diode, to carry out high speed, all-optical switching

Keywords

demultiplexing; high-speed optical techniques; light absorption; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical switches; time division multiplexing; two-photon processes; all optical demultiplexing; all-optical ultra-fast switch; commercial laser diode; control pulsewidths; high speed all-optical switching; laser diode; nonlinear effect; signal pulsewidths; switching window; two-photon absorption; Absorption; Demultiplexing; Diode lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

84-89900-14-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.1998.732459

Filename

732459