Photonic Switching

The first topical meeting on Photonic Switching was held March 18-20, 1987 in Incline Village, Nev., USA in conjunction with the second topical meeting on Optical Computing. It was sponsored by the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society and the Optical Society of America with the co operation of the IEEE Communications Society. The attendance at these meetings was well in excess of 500 persons - a measure of the growing worldwide interest in optical techniques for switching and signal process ing. Our goal in organizing the Photonic Switching meeting was to provide a forum for the presentation of original papers on the subjects of devices and architectures suitable for switching, multiplexing or routing of optical signals. The purpose of the meeting was to foster and enhance interaction between two groups that share a common interest in exploring possible applications of photonic switching technology: people working on optical switching devices and components, and people working on future switching systems and networks.

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This book is a collection of papers presented at the First Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching, which was held in March 1987 in conjunction with the Second Topical Meeting on Optical Computing. More than 500 scientists attended these meetings - a measure of the growing worldwide interest in optical techniques for switching and signal processing. The goal of the photonic switching meeting was to provide a forum for the presentation of original papers on devices and architectures suitable for switching, multiplexing or routing of optical signals. A further intention was to foster the interaction between two groups that have a commmon interest in exploring possible applications of photonic switching technology: people working on optical switching devices and components, and people working on future switching systems and networks. The contributions in the first part are on subjects of broad interest and point out some of the practical problems that must be solved if optical switching and signal-processing techniques are to be widely adopted. The remaining papers give a good indication of the current state of the art. They illustrate the wide variety of materials and devices that are now being investigated and the wide variety of systems applications that are envisaged. It is clear that much progress must be made before photonic switching can have a major impact, but given the high level of interest and activity, that time may be soon.

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I Introduction to Photonic Switching.- Linking Technology and Applications.- Electronic Switching Technologies for Digital Logic.- Photonic Switching Components: Current Status and Future Possibilities.- Photonic Switching System/Network Architectural Possibilities.- II Photonic Switching Components.- Optoelectronic Hybrid Switching.- Photonic Switching with Stripe Domains.- Single-Mode Fiber Switch with Simultaneous Loop-Back Feature.- An All-Fibre Routing Switch.- An All-Optical Switch for Signal Routing Between Fibres.- Monolithically Integrated Optical Gate 2×2 Matrix Switch Using GaAs/AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Well Structure.- 4×4 Ti:LiNbO3 Switch Array with Full Broadcast Capability.- Hard Limiting Opto-electronic Logic Devices.- Nonlinear Optical Logic Etalon at Today's Fiber Communication Wavelengths.- Optical Threshold Mechanism Using the Fiber Coupled Phase Conjugate Mirror.- Operating Curves for Optical Bistable Devices.- Optical Amplifiers for Photonic Switches.- 170ps Fast Switching Response and 2Gbps Optical Memory Operation of Bistable Laser Diodes with Electrically Controlled Saturable Absorber.- An Ultrafast All-Optical Switch.- A Digital Electrooptic Switch.- III Nonlinear Optical Materials for Photonic Switching.- Silicon Injection-Mode 1.3µm Electro-optical Switching.- Room Temperature Excitonic Nonlinear Absorption in GaAs/AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Well Structures Grown Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD).- Design and Construction of Holographic Optical Elements for Photonic Switching Applications.- Organic Materials for Nonlinear Optics.- Physical and Optical Properties of Cd(Se,S) Microcrystallites in Glass.- The Dynamics of Photonic Switching in Indium Antimonide.- Fast All-Optical Switching in a Silicon-On-Sapphire Waveguide.- IVPhotonic Switching Architectures.- Optical Broadband Communications Network Architecture Utilizing Wavelength-Division Switching Technology.- Deterministic and Statistic Circuit Assignment Architectures for Optical Switching Systems.- Dilated Networks for Photonic Switching.- A New Architecture for Large Integrated Optical Switch-Arrays.- Photonic Time-Division Switching Technology.- Optimizing Photonic Variable-Integer-Delay Circuits.- A Photonic Switch Architecture Utilizing Code Division Multiplexing.- V Photonic Switching Systems.- Switching Requirements for Broadband ISDN.- Photonic Switching and Automatic Cross-Connect Systems.- Optical Switching in Coherent Lightwave Systems.- A Photonic Switching Demonstration Display.- Self-Routing Optical Switch with Optical Processing.- System Considerations for the Lithium Niobate Photonic Switching Technology.- Computational Properties of Nonlinear Optical Devices.- A 1.7 Gigabit-per-Second, Time-Multiplexed Photonic Switching Experiment.- 4-Gb/s Optical Time-Division Multiplexed System Experiments Using Ti:LiNbO3 Switch/Modulators.- Optical Amplification in Switching Networks.- Index of Contributors.