Soliton switching in a lossy acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF)

Author

de Oliveira, R.S. ; da Silva, M.G. ; Sombra, A.S.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ciencias da Natureza, Univ. Estadual do Ceara, Quixada, Brazil

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

92

Abstract

Summary form only given. The acoustic-optic tunable filter (AOTF) has attracted great attention in recent years, in part because it appears to be a suitable basis for multiwavelength optical cross-connects. It is probably the only known tunable filter that is capable of selecting several wavelengths simultaneously. This capability can be used to construct a multiwavelength router. In this paper, we study the transmission characteristics of the AOTF operating with ultrashort optical solitons, providing possibilities for achieving high efficiency in ultrafast all-optical signal processing.

Keywords

acousto-optical filters; acousto-optical switches; optical communication equipment; optical interconnections; optical solitons; optical tuning; telecommunication network routing; AOTF; acoustic-optic tunable filter; lossy acousto-optic tunable filter; multi-wavelength optical cross-connects; multi-wavelength router; soliton switching; tunable filter; ultra short optical solitons; ultrafast all-optical signal processing; wavelength selection; Millimeter wave technology; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical polymers; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Optical variables control; Performance loss; Scanning probe microscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.947519

Filename

947519