Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 9, Issue 3, 346(2016)

Principle and applications of semiconductor optical amplifiers-based turbo-switches

Xuelin YANG* and Weisheng HU
Author Affiliations
  • State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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    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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    Paper Information

    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)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-016-0597-0

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