1. 500 Mbit/s operation of a multifunctional binary optical switching fabric
- Author
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G.G. Ortiz, John C. Zolper, Bo Lu, Yin-Chen Lu, Andrew C. Alduino, J. Cheng, John F. Klem, C.P. Hains, and Richard P. Schneider
- Subjects
Optical amplifier ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Optical cross-connect ,Optical performance monitoring ,Optical burst switching ,Waveguide (optics) ,Optical switch ,Photodiode ,law.invention ,law ,Optical transistor ,Optoelectronics ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,business - Abstract
A cascadable binary optical routing switch with improved switching performance has been demonstrated by integrating vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with heterojunction bipolar transistors and pin photodiodes. The reconfigurable routing of optical signals, and their conversion between electrical and optical formats, have been achieved at high speed (400-500 Mbit/s), and with an optical gain of 7.5 dB.
- Published
- 1995