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

doi:10.1007/s12200-016-0597-0

Front. Optoelectron.

2016, Vol. 9

Issue (3) : 346-352 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-016-0597-0

RESEARCH ARTICLE

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

Xuelin YANG(

),Weisheng HU

State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

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Abstract

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 frequency-domain 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.

Keywords semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) all-optical signal processing high-speed switches semiconductor integration

Corresponding Author(s): Xuelin YANG

Just Accepted Date: 19 August 2016 Online First Date: 13 September 2016 Issue Date: 28 September 2016

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Xuelin YANG,Weisheng HU. Principle and applications of semiconductor optical amplifiers-based turbo-switches[J]. Front. Optoelectron., 2016, 9(3): 346-352.

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Fig.1 Schematic setup of turbo-switch

Fig.2 Normalized gain dynamics of a single SOA (blue) and turbo-switch (green)

Fig.3 Recovery time and overshoot level as a function of the number of the cascading SOAs

Fig.4 Structure of turbo-switch only (top), with a DI before SOA2 (middle) and with a DI after SOA2 (bottom)

Fig.5 Normalized SSFR of a single SOA, turbo-switch and a turbo-switch, (a) followed by a DI; (b) with a DI between two SOAs, corresponding to the setups shown in Fig. 4

Fig.6 Structure of the proposed integrated turbo-switch

Fig.7 Phase difference between two MZI arms versus bias SOA current

Fig.8 Spectra of the pump (2 ps pulses, FWHM) and probe (CW) optical signals before and after MZI

Fig.9 Gain dynamics measurements of the integrated turbo-switch under different SOA bias currents

Fig.10 Waveforms of CW modulated signal by 42.4 Gbit/s pump data pulses under different SOA bias currents

Fig.11 Experimental setup of wavelength conversion using integrated turbo-switch

Fig.12 Eye diagrams of wavelength conversion at 84.8 Gbit/s. (a) Input, and (b) output signals

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