All-optical broadband photonic switching device using an ytterbium-doped fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer

P. Elango; J. W. Arkwright; J. W. Arkwright; P. L. Chu; G. R. Atkins; G. R. Atkins

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1996),
paper CThK3

All-optical broadband photonic switching device using an ytterbium-doped fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer

P. Elango, J. W. Arkwright, P. L. Chu, and G. R. Atkins

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 1996

Anaheim, California United States
2–7 June 1996
ISBN: 1-55752-443-2

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P. Elango, J. W. Arkwright, P. L. Chu, and G. R. Atkins, "All-optical broadband photonic switching device using an ytterbium-doped fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, J. Bowers, D. Miller, D. Scifres, and A. Weiner, eds., Vol. 9 of OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1996), paper CThK3.

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Abstract

Cross-connect switching devices are essential elements in realizing dynamic route selection In future all-optical communications networks.¹ To be attractive, this type of device needs to be modulation and wavelength transparent (i.e., totally optical transparent), and have low signal loss, low optical switching power and high reliability. The device reported here possesses all these features and works on the principle of phase shifts in ytterbium-doped fiber far from the 980nm resonance, caused by changes in the absorption of strong bands in the Vacuum-UV.^2,3

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