Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 9, Issue 3, 346(2016)
Principle and applications of semiconductor optical amplifiers-based turbo-switches
All-optical high-speed turbo-switches can effectively increase the switching speed using cascaded semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). The overall recovery time or the bandwidth of turbo-switch was numerically analyzed with time-domain and frequencydomain SOA models. The turbo-switch was explored from the fundamental carrier dynamics in SOAs for the purpose of further increasing its operation speed. An integrated turbo-switch was also been proposed and demonstrated, where a phase adjustable Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) was applied as an optical band-pass filter between SOAs. Wavelength conversion was first demonstrated at 84.8 Gbit/s using the integrated turbo-switch.
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Xuelin YANG, Weisheng HU. Principle and applications of semiconductor optical amplifiers-based turbo-switches[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2016, 9(3): 346
Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE
Received: Jan. 8, 2016
Accepted: Apr. 2, 2016
Published Online: Nov. 23, 2016
The Author Email: YANG Xuelin (x.yang@sjtu.edu.cn)