This contribution focuses on optically-controlled switching devices that have the potential of operating at rates greater than 40 Gb/s, that is beyond the limits of electronics components. These devices would be useful for ultrafast serial processing: applications include routing and time-domain demultiplexing in telecommunications transmission networks as well as local area networks, providing key functions where the system bottleneck is set by the bandwidth of a few critical components. All-optical time-domain switching and routing is a natural complement to wavelength switching in offering massive transport capability: therefore, it would be advisable that optically-controlled technologies be compatible with wavelength switching implementations. The discussion here is restricted to nonlinear, guided-wave, passive devices based on semiconductors, and, specifically, on semiconductor quantum wells (SQWs).


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    Title :

    All-optical waveguide devices based on multiple quantum wells


    Contributors:
    Campi, D. (author) / Coriasso, C. (author) / Faustini, L. (author) / Cacciatore, C. (author) / Rigo, C. (author) / Stano, A. (author)


    Publication date :

    1996-01-01


    Size :

    253425 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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