Photonic Switching II: Proceedings of the International Topical Meeting, Kobe, Japan, April 12–14, 1990

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Trends in Electronic Communication Switching Technologies....Pages 2-5
Trends in Photonic Science and Technology: Implications for Photonic Switching....Pages 6-13
Role of Optical Amplifiers in Realizing All-Optical Communication Networks....Pages 14-22
Nonlinear Optical Devices for Photonic Switching....Pages 23-29
Photonic Switching Fabrics Based on S-SEED Arrays....Pages 30-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Bandfilling or Stark Effect for Photonic Switching — A Comparison....Pages 42-45
Electrorefractive Waveguide Devices Using Tunable Electron Density Quantum Wells....Pages 46-49
GaAs/AlGaAs Reflection-Type Optical Switch Using Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Waveguide Structure....Pages 50-53
Insertion Loss Reduction of InP Based Carrier-Injection-Type Optical S 3 Switch....Pages 54-57
Design and Performance of Monolithic LD Optical Matrix Switches....Pages 58-61
Polarization and Wavelength Independent Four-Port Optical Routing Switch with Semiconductor Y-Junction Optical Cross-Points....Pages 62-66
4 × 4 GaAs/AlGaAs Optical Matrix Switches with Electro-Optic Guided-Wave Directional Couplers....Pages 67-71
Photonic Spatial Logic Operations Using a Beam Scanning Laser Diode....Pages 72-75
Cross-Coupled Lateral Modes in a Twin-Stripe Laser: Analysis Leading to the Mechanism and Bistability....Pages 76-79
Low Drive Voltage Directional Coupler Optical Switch with Reduced Voltage-Length Product....Pages 80-83
A Broadband, Low Driving Voltage 2 × 2 Ti:LiNbO 3 Optical Switch....Pages 84-87
Asymmetric Mach-Zehnder Band Modulator with Phase Reversed Traveling-Wave Electrode....Pages 88-91
Polarization Beam Splitter Switch with Controlled Silica Waveguide Birefringence on Si Substrate....Pages 92-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Light-Controlled Optical Modulation by Quantum Well Structure....Pages 98-101
All-Optical Multiple Quantum Well Grating Switch....Pages 102-105
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
All-Optical Set-Reset Operation of a Bistable Laser Diode at a Repetition Rate of 100 MHz....Pages 106-109
Electrically and Optically Controlled p-i(MQW)-n Vertical Coupler Switch with Electro-Optic Feedback....Pages 110-113
Side-Diode-Injection Laser for Optical Logic....Pages 114-117
Optical Flip-Flops Using Two Nonlinear Etalons....Pages 118-121
An Erbium-Doped Fiber Active Switch Controlled by Coded Pump Light....Pages 122-125
Demonstration of 50 Gb/s All-Optical Kerr Demultiplexing Utilizing Pump-Probe Pulse Walk-off in Optical Fibers....Pages 126-129
Ultrafast, Low Power, and Highly Stable All-Optical Switching in an All Polarization Maintaining Fiber Sagnac Interferometer....Pages 130-133
Optical Bistability in a Tapered Multimode Fiber with a Nonlinear Overlay....Pages 134-137
Ultrafast Switching Using Two-Color Soliton Collisions....Pages 138-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Two-Dimensional Array Microlasers for Photonic Switching....Pages 144-154
Top-Surface-Emitting GaAs Four-Quantum-Well Lasers Emitting at 0.85 µm....Pages 155-158
Photonic Parallel Memory....Pages 159-166
Realization of a Graded-Threshold Function Using an AlGaAs/GaAs pnpn Optical Switch....Pages 167-170
An Injection Controlled Optically Bistable Switch....Pages 171-174
Demonstration of Optical Gating Using a Semiconductor-Doped Glass Etalon....Pages 175-178
InGaAs/InP MQW Modulators with Enhanced Performance: Symmetrical Coupled Wells and Double-Sided Epitaxy....Pages 179-184
Photonic Switching and SEED Effect in AlGaAs/GaAs DFB Structures Grown by MOVPE....Pages 185-189
Improving the Performance of Large Arrays of Symmetric Self Electro-optic Effect Devices....Pages 190-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
A 3D Crossover Switching Network Based on S-SEED Arrays....Pages 196-199
A Polarization-Switched Optically Reconfigurable Interconnection Network....Pages 200-203
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Two-Dimensional Multichannel Optical Switch....Pages 204-207
A Rearrangeable Multichannel Free-Space Optical Switch Using a Polarization-Multiplexing Technique....Pages 208-211
Scale Estimation of a Two-Dimensional Optical Concentrator Using Position Shifters....Pages 212-215
Free-Space Multistage Optical Interconnection Networks Using Micro Lens Arrays....Pages 216-219
Multistage Interconnection Networks and d-Dimensional Architectures....Pages 220-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Frequency Conversion by Four-Wave-Mixing in LD Amplifiers....Pages 226-232
Gigabit Operation of a Wavelength-Conversion Laser....Pages 233-236
Spectral Bistability in Multielectrode DFB Lasers....Pages 237-240
Tunable Fiber Ring Lasers with an Electrically Accessible Acousto-optic Filter....Pages 241-244
Integrated Optical Switches for Wavelength-Division-Multiplex Communication Using Collinear Acousto-optic Interactions....Pages 245-248
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Optical FDM Technologies for Future Lightwave Networks....Pages 250-253
Lightwave Frequency-Controlling Technologies for FDM Switching Star Network....Pages 254-257
Dynamic Wavelength Tuning for Broadband Optical Packet Switching....Pages 258-265
Dense FDM Coherent Optical Switching System....Pages 266-273
An Optical Phase-Locked Loop Using an Acousto-optic Frequency Shifter....Pages 274-277
A 2.5 Gb/s Optical FDM Switch Experiment with a 15,000 GHz Tuning Range....Pages 278-281
Application of Optical FSK Signals to Wavelength-Division Switching Systems....Pages 282-285
Photonic Wavelength-Division Switching Network Using a Parallel λ-Switch....Pages 286-290
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Ultrafast Photonic Packet Switch with Optical Output Buffer....Pages 292-295
Photonic ATM Switching Network....Pages 296-299
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
ATM Photonic Switching Node Architecture Based on Frequency Switching Techniques....Pages 300-303
A New Timing Architecture for Optical ATM Switching Systems....Pages 304-307
All-Optical Self-Routing Crossbar Switch....Pages 308-311
Photonic Lattice Type Self-Routing Switching Network....Pages 312-315
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Lithium Niobate Devices and Their Role in Photonic Switching....Pages 318-328
Size, Transparency and Control in Optical Space Switch Fabrics: A 16 × 16 Single Chip Array in Lithium Niobate and Its Applications....Pages 329-333
Photonic SD-Switching for Subscriber Networks in B-ISDN....Pages 334-337
High-Isolation Optoelectronic Switch Matrix....Pages 338-341
Optical Switches Using Liquid Crystals....Pages 342-345
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal 4 × 4 Optical Interconnect....Pages 346-349
AlGaAs Grating Surface-Emitting Beam Deflector for a 1 × N Space-Division Optical Switch....Pages 350-353
Application of Single-Stage Electronic Networks Concepts to Photonic Switching....Pages 354-357
Two-Dimensional Photonic Switching Network Using Waveguide Optics....Pages 358-361
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Multidimensional Photonic Switches....Pages 364-369
Photonic Switching Network Utilizing Wavelength Multiplexing....Pages 370-373
High-Frequency Operation of an All-Optical Synchronization Circuit....Pages 374-377
Consideration of Optical Channel Number and Data/Frame Phase Tolerance for the Photonic Ring Highway....Pages 378-381
Line Capacity Consideration for a Photonic Space-Division Switching System with Switch Matrices and Optical Amplifiers....Pages 382-385
Optical Switched-Star Networks for Computer-System Interconnection....Pages 386-390
Optoelectronic Switching for Radar Steering....Pages 391-394
Back Matter....Pages 395-396