带内多波长光标记分组交换技术的研究

介绍了一种带内多波长光标记分组交换技术。在这种光交换中,光信头由若干个与光载荷处于同一通信信道内的具有不同波长值的光脉冲构成。探讨了包括信头产生和光分组形成部分的光发射机技术,包括数据恢复的接收机技术和包括路由处理的光交换节点技术。一个简化的实验演示了这种光交换的原理。     

Switching dynamics of short optical pulses in a nonlineardirectional coupler

It has been shown recently that the propagation of short optical pulses in a nonlinear directional coupler consisting of two parallel waveguides or fibers should be described more generally by a pair of coupled nonlinear equations that take into account the dispersion properties of the coupling coefficient. In this paper, we use the Fourier series analysis method to solve these equations, and study the effects of a dispersive coupling coefficient on the switching dynamics of short optical pulses in a nonlinear directional coupler. We demonstrate, with numerical examples, that a dispersive coupling coefficient could cause significant pulse distortion and affect the threshold switching intensity. The effects of introducing frequency chirps in the input pulses are also discussed     

STOLAS: switching technologies for optically labeled signals

GMPLS-based labeled optical burst switching (LOBS) networks are being considered as the next-generation optical Internet. GMPLS includes wavelength switching next to label and fiber (space) switching. We present a new concept of optically labeling bursts of packets suitable for LOBS networks supported by GMPLS. It is based on angle modulation, which enables control information to modulate the phase or frequency of the optical carrier, while payload data are transmitted via intensity modulation (IM). In particular, the optical label is orthogonally modulated, with respect to the payload, using either frequency shift keying or differential phase shift keying. We present a performance analysis of the modulation schemes by means of simulations where the influence of the payload IM extinction ratio and laser linewidth are investigated. In addition, the transmission performance of an IM/FSK combined modulated signal is experimentally validated at 10 Gb/s, demonstrating at the same time an FSK label swapping operation. Finally, a suitable optical label-controlled switch design is proposed that takes advantage of these novel labeling techniques, and efficiently combines widely tunable, fast switching lasers and SOA-MZI wavelength converters with an arrayed waveguide grating router.     

Characterization of nonlinear switching in a figure-of-eight fiberlaser using frequency-resolved optical gating

The measurement technique of frequency-resolved optical gating is applied to determine the nonlinear switching characteristics of a passively modelocked figure-of-eight erbium-doped fiber laser. By completely characterizing the intensity and phase of the laser output pulses, the intracavity fields in the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror of the laser cavity are determined by numerical propagation using the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Excellent switching of 95% can be achieved as a result of uniform phase characteristics developed by pulses propagating in the nonlinear amplifying loop mirror     

Nonlinear switching of optical pulses in fiber Bragg gratings

We study numerically the nonlinear switching characteristics of optical pulses transmitted though fiber Bragg gratings. We consider both the uniform and phase-shifted gratings and compare their performance as a nonlinear switch. The nonlinear coupled-mode equations were solved numerically to obtain the pulse-switching characteristics. The steady-state behavior known to occur for continuous-wave optical beams is realized only for pulses wider than 10 ns with long tails. For pulsewidths in the range 0.1-1 ns, the use of phase-shifted gratings reduces the switching threshold, but the on-off contrast is generally better for uniform gratings. We also quantify the effects of rise and fall times associated with an optical pulse on nonlinear switching by considering the Gaussian pulses with smooth tails and nearly rectangular pulses with sharp leading and trailing edges.     

Highly Functional All-Optical Control Using Ultrafast Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers

Using the optical fibers and ultrashort pulses, we can demonstrate highly functional optical control. We have succeeded in generation of low-noise, ultraflat, high-quality supercontinuum (SC). Recently, octave spanning high-quality SC is also generated. The carrier envelope offset frequency measurement and ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography are demonstrated using SC. We can also generate widely wavelength-tunable ultrashort soliton pulses using soliton self-frequency shift (SSFS). So far, several new techniques have been proposed and demonstrated using SSFS. The author has also discovered novel two-pulse trapping phenomena. The ultrafast all-optical switching is demonstrated using the pulse trapping techniques, and principles and characteristics are described.      

Comparison of optical processing techniques for optical microwavesignal generation

Recently, there have been several proposals on using the higher RF harmonics of detected pulses from mode-locked semiconductor lasers as a source of microwave and millimeter waves. This paper compares the performance of three optical techniques of signal processing that have been proposed to select a higher harmonic of a mode-locked laser, by using extensive numerical simulations. We show that techniques using delays and splitters are insensitive to the coherence properties of the source, but can introduce amplitude patterning if pulses overlap when recombined. We see that techniques relying on optical filtering to select optical modes require extremely high-Q filters and, thus, are extremely sensitive to tuning. A Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) is the optimum fitter method in terms of power efficiency for low harmonics, but using two separate bandpass filters can give comparable efficiency when selecting higher harmonics. We also show that gain-switched lasers are unsuitable as sources when used with narrow-band optical filtering techniques because of their low pulse-to-pulse optical coherence     

A high-speed optical star network using TDMA and all-opticaldemultiplexing techniques

The authors demonstrate the use of time-division multiplexing (TDM) to realize a high capacity optical star network. The fundamental element of the demonstration network is a 10 ps, wavelength tunable, low jitter, pulse source. Electrical data is encoded onto three optical pulse trains, and the resultant low duty cycle optical data channels are multiplexed together using 25 ps fiber delay lines. This gives an overall network capacity of 40 Gb/s. A nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) is used to carry out the demultiplexing at the station receiver. The channel to be switched out can be selected by adjusting the phase of the electrical signal used to generate the control pulses for the NOLM. By using external injection into a gain-switched distributed feedback (DFB) laser we are able to obtain very low jitter control pulses of 4-ps duration (RMS jitter <1 ps) after compression of the highly chirped gain switched pulses in a normal dispersive fiber. This enables us to achieve excellent eye openings for the three demultiplexed channels. The difficulty in obtaining complete switching of the signal pulses is presented. This is shown to be due to the deformation of the control pulse in the NOLM (caused by the soliton effect compression). The use of optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM) with all-optical switching devices is shown to be an excellent method to allow us to exploit as efficiently as possible the available fiber bandwidth, and to achieve very high bit-rate optical networks     

Optical comparator: A new application for avalanche phototransistors

We describe an InP/InGaAs heterojunction avalanche phototransistor which can be switched from a low-current "off" state to a high-current "on" state with an optical pulse. The transition is characterized by a region of negative dynamic resistance. In the switching mode where the effective current gain is determined by the circuit series resistance, gains exceeding 10⁵have been achieved. The switching rise time is an order of magnitude less (≃20 ns) than the rise time in the normal phototransistor mode. In addition, we show that this type of device can be used as an optical comparator which discriminates between optical pulses relative to a fixed threshold power level. The threshold level can be varied over three orders of magnitude by changing the bias voltage.     

微微秒光闸

本文介绍了用20微微秒超短脉冲做开关脉冲,硝基苯做克尔介质,得到开关时间为60微微秒的光闸.并讨论了各种因素对光闸透过率和开关时间的影响.提出一种新型的共线光闸方案,成功地做了实验.     

Signal-to-noise ratio analysis of 100 Gb/s demultiplexing usingnonlinear optical loop mirror

This paper investigates experimentally and theoretically the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) characteristics of 100 Gb/s all-optical demultiplexing using a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). The analysis takes into account two effects that degrade the SNR associated with NOLM demultiplexing. First is channel crosstalk originating from the leakage of nontarget channels. Second is the intensity fluctuations of demultiplexed signals caused by the combined effects of timing jitter and a profile of the switching window. Considering these two effects, power penalties associated with NOLM. Demultiplexing are theoretically evaluated using the conventional noise theory of an optical receiver followed by an optical preamplifier. Experimental results of bit error rate measurements for 100 Gb/s demultiplexing using three different NOLMs with different intrinsic crosstalk values, defined by signal transmittance in the absence of control pulses, show that the power penalties are in good agreement with the evaluation based upon our proposed analysis. It can be found from our investigation in demultiplexing from 100 to 10 Gb/s that intrinsic crosstalk of less than -25 dB, corresponding to a coupling ratio, K, of |K-0.5|⩽0.03, is required for the power penalty of less than 1 dB. The root-mean-square (rms) value of the relative timing jitter necessary for obtaining a sufficient timing tolerance width for combining control and signal pulses is determined     

Picosecond polarization dynamics and noise in pulsed vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

We have measured on picosecond time scales the polarization behavior of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) pumped with short optical pulses. Our data describe the temporal properties of the intensity and intensity noise for orthogonally polarized modes as well as noise correlations between the modes in both the circular and the linear detection bases. A variety of behavior is observed that depends on the polarization of the pump, the strength of the pump, the VCSEL operating temperature which determines the carrier spin-flip rates, and the degree of birefringence and dichroism in the laser. We develop an extension of the "split density" model which includes carrier relaxation processes that are important on picosecond time scales. Our numerical simulations illustrate how spin-flip processes lead to anti-correlated fluctuations in the circularly polarized modes and how anti-correlated noise can arise between the linearly polarized modes without switching between two "preferred" modes, as is commonly seen on longer time scales.     

超短光脉冲的频率分辨光学开关法测量研究

为了对二次谐波型和偏振开关型频率分辨光学开关法测量超短光脉冲的研究,利用矩阵的方法对实验系统中几种常见超短光脉冲的二次谐波-频率分辨光学开关和偏振开关-频率分辨光学开关光谱图进行了数值模拟,并采用基于矩阵的主元素广义投影算法从数值模拟的二次谐波-频率分辨光学开关光谱图中恢复了脉冲的振幅和相位,误差达到收敛的标准(G-4)。结果表明,频率分辨光学开关能够精确地测量超短光脉冲。     

Optical energy considerations for diode-clamped smart pixel opticalreceivers

We calculate the switching time as a function of optical energy for a single-stage smart pixel receiver. We find that operating the receivers dynamically using modelocked pulses is the most energy-efficient method of operation. We also show that the receivers no longer operate with constant optical input energy, like the symmetric self electro-optic effect device (S-SEED), but rather the product of the required optical energy and the switching time is constant, as a result of the introduction of electrical voltage gain     

Optical time-division multiplexing for very high bit-ratetransmission

Optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM) extends and expands the well-known techniques of electrical time-division multiplexing into the optical domain. In OTDM, optical data streams are constructed by time-multiplexing a number of lower-bit-rate optical streams. Opportunities for very high-speed transmission and switching are created by removing limitations set by the restricted bandwidth of electronics and by capitalizing on the inherent high-speed characteristics of optical devices. An overview of recent work in optical time-division multiplexing and demultiplexing is presented. Design considerations affecting system architecture are described. Emphasis on the factors that limit system performance, such as crosstalk between multiplexed channels. Examples of very high bit-rate optical time-division multiplexed system experiments using short pulses from mode-locked semiconductor lasers and high-speed Ti:LiNbO₃ waveguide switch/modulators are presented     

The effect of modulator nonlinearity on measurements of chirp inelectroabsorption modulators

Traditional techniques for measuring the chirp in external modulators assume that the optical intensity output of the modulator is a faithful representation of the applied voltage. For electroabsorption modulators, which can have highly nonlinear transmission- vs voltage characteristics, this is a poor approximation, especially when they are operated at high modulation indices. We demonstrate a new technique that makes use of the actual measured T(V) for the device under test, and show that this new technique permits measurement of chirp in modulators generating either NRZ signals or soliton pulses. We apply this technique to both bulk and MQW electroabsorption modulators, and show that traditional measurements significantly underestimate the α values of these devices     

Microwave switching by picosecond photoconductivity

Bulk photoconductivity produced by the absorption of picosecond optical pulses in silicon transmission-line structures has been used to switch and gate microwave signals. The technique permits the generation of microwave and millimeter-wave pulses as short as a single cycle, and requires only a few microjoules of optical energy. The basic features of the device are illustrated with switching experiments at 1 GHz and 10 GHz, and the results are discussed with reference to the physical properties of the high-density plasma responsible for the switching.     

Characterisation of telecommunications pulse trains by Fourier-transform and dual-quadrature spectral interferometry

The first use of two sensitive spectral interferometric techniques for the complete intensity and phase characterisation of high-data rate optical pulse trains with low average power is demonstrated. The pulses are reconstructed either by Fourier-transform or dual-quadrature spectral interferometry after characterisation of an amplified reference pulse by frequency-resolved optical gating.     

High-Performance Hybrid-Switching Optical Router for IP over WDM Integration

Because pure electrical routers with their bandwidth limitations can hardly keep up with the tremendous traffic growth in the Internet, optical routers based on various optical switching techniques including optical wavelength switching (OWS), optical burst switching (OBS), and optical packet switching (OPS) have been suggested to cope with this problem. However, because OBS and OPS are both in their early experimental phase and OWS only provides coarse granularity switching, a hybrid-switching optical router with combined OWS and electrical packet switching is a necessity in order to accommodate the entire multi-granularity traffic with multi-service requirements in a cost-effective manner. Its coordination capability of optical circuit switching and electrical packet switching enables efficient/intelligent usage of network resources. In this paper, we first review research and developments of such IP routers employing optical switching/interconnection techniques and examine how these techniques can be used inside routers to scale node capacity and to improve optical Internet performance. We also present and study the performance of a terabit optical router with an optical-electrical hybrid-switching fabric. The node architecture is based on the idea of IP over WDM integration with Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS). The network-level performance evaluations show that the proposed hybrid-switching optical router is a cost-effective solution for building the next generation GMPLS-based multi-granularity optical Internet.     

Gain-transparent SOA-switch for high-bitrate OTDM add/dropmultiplexing

We report on an all-optical interferometric optical time-division multiplexing switch that exhibits high linearity, high-switching contrast, low noise, wide bandwidth, and low crosstalk. The key element of the gain-transparent switch is a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), which is transparent for the data signal. However, the injection of optical control pulses in the gain wavelength region of the SOA leads to index modulations at the wavelength of the data. This variation of the refractive index can be used for interferometric switching. In the application as add/drop multiplexer, the switch has the inherent advantage of leaving the nonswitched pulses undisturbed