Photonic Switching II: Proceedings of the International Topical Meeting, Kobe, Japan, April 12–14, 1990 (Springer Series in Electronics and Photonics, 29)

The 1990 International Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching was held April 12-14, 1990, in Kobe, Japan, in conjunction with the 1990 International Meet­ ing on Optical Computing. It was sponsored by the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers in cooperation with the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, the Optical Society of America, and the Japan So­ ciety of Applied Physics. The attendance was in excess of 340 persons, with 18 countries represented - a testimony to the current international interest in photonic switching. This book contains expanded and more detailed versions of most of the papers presented at the topical meeting. With the success of optical fibers there is an increased demand for a switch­ ing system that can operate directly on the light present in the fibers. The goal is to reduce the total number of optical-to-electrical and electrical-to-optical transformations as far as possible, in addition to exploiting the large spec­ tral and temporal bandwidth offered by such an optically transparent system. 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 This book outlines the current status of research in photonic switching and details the latest scientific achievements and trends in this field. The topics treated include guided-wave devices, optically controlled devices, space-division switching, free-space and wavelength-based switching and devices, and packet switching. Several contributions provide a broad overview of some of the most rapidly developing areas, such as optical amplifiers, nonlinear optical devices, and free-space digital optics. This is an ideal reference book for researchers wishing to learn about and understand the recent rapid progress in photonic switching.