PT Journal
AU Odrobinak, R
   Dado, M
   Jankovsky, R
TI Optical SOA-based switching
SO Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina
PY 2004
BP 107
EP 109
VL 6
IS 4
DI 10.26552/com.C.2004.4.107-109
WP https://komunikacie.uniza.sk/artkey/csl-200404-0020.php
DE no keywords
SN 13354205
AB All-optical switches are fundamental building blocks for high-speed optical networks and basic blocks towards all-optical networks for future communications that utilize Optical Time Division Multiplexing (OTDM) techniques of signal with single channel data rate of hundreds Gbps. It seems that the most promising technology will be based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA). We can arrange these components to some interferometric architectures in which SOAs achieve efficient optical switching rate with low control energy and big optical sampling bandwidth. The interferometric optical switch geometries are presented and characterized in this paper. We discuss their limitation on temporal width of switching window and some of their applications.
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