Photonic Switching Technology

"Find out how today's photonic switching technologies can provide a functional advantage in handling the ever-increasing data rates and bandwidth requirements placed on telecommunications components, systems, and networks with this self-contained, tutorial guide. Based on systems currently in use, PHOTONIC SWITCHING TECHNOLOGY will equip practitioners and researchers with a comprehensive understanding of the functionality and versatility provided by phonotonics technologies used in all-optical networks weighed against their costs and limitations. The authors feature special coverage of state-of-the art pilot systems that use photonic switching and multiwavelength techniques such as MONET, LAMBDANET, COBRA, and STARNET. These systems not only demonstrate the feasibility of optical systems, but also the implications of system integration, supporting technologies, and system economics.

PHOTONIC SWITCHING TECHNOLOGY brings you a wealth of information on Photonic switches based on the electro-optic effect, switches based on semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA), and optical memory switches* Free space optical switching* Wavelength division switching, including wavelength routing, wavelength conversion, and WDM packet switching* Optical crossconnects" Sponsored by: IEEE Communications Society.

ISBN 0780347072   Pages 610 ISBN13 9780780347076 (What's this?)   Volumes 000 Publisher I.E.E.E.Press   Weight (grammes) 1644 Imprint IEEE Publications,U.S.   Published in Piscataway NJ Format Hardback   Height (mm) 283 Publication date 12 Oct 1998   Width (mm) 223 Library of Congress TK5105.59.   Spine width (mm) 36 DEWEY 621.381537   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Technical/vocational DEWEY edition DC21

		Preface
Ch. 1		Overview		1
		Switching Technologies for Future Guided Wave Optical Networks: Potentials and Limitations of Photonics and Electronics by L. Thylen and G. Karlsson and O. Nilsson		3
		Photonics in Switching: The Next 25 Years of Optical Communications? by J. E. Midwinter		10
		Integrated-Optics Planar Components by D. A. Nolan and V. A. Bhagavatula and C. Lerminiaux		22
		On the Future of Wavelength Routing Networks by O. Gerstel		28
		Optical Networking Update by P. E. Green, Jr.		35
		Survey of ATM Switch Architectures by R. Y. Awdeh and H. T. Mouftah		51
Ch. 2		Electrooptic Photonic Switches		99
		Waveguide Electrooptic Switch Arrays by R. C. Alferness		101
		A Class of Directional-Coupler-Based Photonic Switching Networks by A. Jajszczyk		115
		Crosstalk in a Lossy Directional Coupler Switch by V. R. Chinni and T. C. Huang and P. K. A. Wai		120
		Circuits on Silicon by M. Kawachi		126
Ch. 3		Optical-Amplifier-Based Switches		133
		Photonic Switching Modules Designed with Laser Diode Amplifiers by J. D. Evankow, Jr. and R. A. Thompson		135
		SLALOM: Semiconductor Laser Amplifier in a Loop Mirror by M. Eiselt and W. Pieper and H. G. Weber		144
		Space Division Switches Based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers by R. F. Kalman and L. G. Kazovsky and J. W. Goodman		158
		Analysis of Nonlinear Optical Switching in an Erbium-Doped Fiber by R. H. Pantell and M. J. F. Digonnet and R. W. Sadowski		161
Ch. 4		Optical Memories for Switching		171
		Greatly Enhanced Logical Functionality of the S-SEED for Use in Optical Switching Systems by R. J. Grindle and J. E. Midwinter		173
		Parallel Operation of 32x16 Symmetric Self-Electrooptic Effect Device Array by F. B. McCormick and A. L. Lentine and R. L. Morrison		182
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