Ultrafast All-Optical Signal Processing Devices

Herausgegeben:Ishikawa, Hiroshi

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Produktbeschreibung

A thorough and in-depth treatment of the state-of-the-art development of semiconductor based ultrafast all-optical devices; this book provides practical examples to clearly explain the technologies. It also explains technical issues in turning the ultrafast optical devices into practical working tools.

The book covers the following:
- Mode-locked semiconductor lasers.
- Electro-absorption modulator based 160Gb/s signal sources.
- Signal processing using only the ultrafast response component of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA).
- SOA based symmetric Mach-Zehnder type all-optical gates.
- Uni-travelling-carrier photodiode (UTC-PD) and PD-EAM optical gate integrating UTC-PD and travelling wave electro-absorption modulator (TW-EAM).
- Intersubband transition all-optical gates with a few 100fs to 1 ps response speed.
- Transparent wavelength conversion using four-wave mixing in bulk and quantum dot based SOA.
- Examples of above 160Gb/s transmission experiments.

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Semiconductor-based Ultra-Fast All-Optical Signal Processing Devices -a key technology for the next generation of ultrahigh bandwidth optical communication systems!

The introduction of ultra-fast communication systems based on all-optical signal processing is considered to be one of the most promising ways to handle the rapidly increasing global communication traffic. Such systems will enable real time super-high definition moving pictures such as high reality TV-conference, remote diagnosis and surgery, cinema entertainment and many other applications with small power consumption. The key issue to realize such systems is to develop ultra-fast optical devices such as light sources, all-optical gates and wavelength converters.

Ultra-Fast All-Optical Signal Processing Devices discusses the state of the art development of semiconductor-based ultrafast all-optical devices, and their various signal processing applications for bit-rates 100Gb/s to 1Tb/s.

Ultra-Fast All-Optical Signal Processing Devices:

_ Provides a thorough and in-depth treatment of the most recent achievements in ultrafast all-optical devices

_ Discusses future networks with applications such as HD-TV and super-high definition moving screens as a motivating background for devices research

_ Covers mode-locked semiconductor lasers, electro-absorption modulator based 160Gb/s signal sources, SOA based symmetric Mach-Zehnder type all-optical gates, intersubband transition gate device, and more

_ Explains the technical issues behind turning the ultra-fast optical devices into practical working tools

_ Examples of above 160Gb/s transmission experiments

_ Discusses future prospects of the ultra-fast signal processing devices

This invaluable reference will provide device researchers and engineers in industry, researchers at universities (including graduate students, and post doctorial researchers and professors) and research institutes with a thorough understanding of ultrahigh bandwidth optical communication systems. Device and communication market watchers will also find this book useful.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780470518205
• ISBN-10: 0470518200
• Artikelnr.: 23428246

Autorenporträt

Dr Hiroshi Ishikawa, Tsukuba, Japan Dr Ishikawa is the Director of the Ultrafast Photonic Devices Laboratory in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. He worked for research and development of optical semiconductor devices in Fujitsu Labs Ltd from 1972 to 2001. In 2001 he moved to Femtosecond Technology Research Association Central Res. Lab. as a group leader of ultrafast all-optical switching devices. He is at AIST since 2004. He is a member of Japan Society of Applied Physics, The Physical Society of Japan, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, and IEEE (Fellow).

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1.1 Evolution of optical communication systems and
device technologies 1.2 Increasing communication traffics and power
consumption 1.3 Future networks and technologies 1.4 Ultrafast all-optical
signal processing devices 1.5 Overview of the devices and their concepts
1.6 Summary CHAPTER 2. Light Sources 2.1 Requirement for light sources 2.2
Mode-locked laser diodes 2.3 Electro-absorption modulator (EAM) based
signal source 2.4 Summary CHAPTER 3 Semiconductor optical amplifier based
ultrafast signal processing devices 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Fundamental of SOA
3.3 SOA as an ultrafast nonlinear medium 3.4 Use of ultrafast response
component by filtering 3.5 Symmetric Mach-Zehnder (SMZ) all-optical gate
3.6 Summary CHAPTER 4 Uni-traveling-carrier photodiode (UTC-PD) and PD-EAM
optical gate integrating a UTC-PD and a traveling wave electro-absorption
modulator 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Uni-traveling-carrier photodiode (UTC-PD)
4.3 Concept of new opto-electronic integrated device 4.4 PD-EAM optical
gate integrating UTC-PD and TW-EAM 4.5 Summary and prospects CHAPTER 5
Intersubband transition all-optical gates 5.1 Operation principle 5.2
GaN/AlN ISBT gate 5.3 (CdS/ZnSe)/BeTe ISBT gate 5.4 InGaAs/AlAs/AlAsSb ISBT
gate 5.5 Cross-phase modulation effect in InGaAs/AlAs/AlAsSb ISBT gate 5.6
Summary CHAPTER 6 Wavelength conversion devices 6.1 Introduction 6.2
Wavelength conversion schemes 6.3 Physics of four-wave mixing in LDs and
SOAs 6.4 Wavelength conversion of short pulses using FWM in semiconductor
devices 6.5 Experimental results of wavelength conversion using FWM in SOAs
and LDs 6.6 The future view of wavelength conversion using FWM 6.7 Summary
CHAPTER 7 Summary and future prospects 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Transmission
experiments 7.3 Requirements on devices and prospects 7.4 Summary and
future prospects