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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics

Control Scheme for Optimizing the Interferometer Phase Bias in the Symmetric-Mach-Zehnder All-Optical Switch

Yoshiyasu UENO, Morio TAKAHASHI, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Kouichi SUZUKI, Takanori SHIMIZU, Akio FURUKAWA, Takemasa TAMANUKI, Kazuo MORI, Satoshi AE, Tatsuya SASAKI, Kazuhito TAJIMA

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Control scheme for accurately optimizing (and also automatically stabilizing) the interferometer phase bias of Symmetric-Mach-Zehnder (SMZ)-type ultrafast all-optical switches is proposed. In this control scheme, a weak cw light is used as a supervisory input light and its spectral power ratio at the switch output is used as a bipolar error signal. Our experimental result at 168-Gb/s 16:1 demultiplexing with a hybrid-integrated SMZ switch indicates the feasibility and the sensitivity of this control scheme.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E86-C No.5 pp.731-740
Publication Date
2003/05/01
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Special Section INVITED PAPER (Joint Special Issue on Recent Progress in Optoelectronics and Communications)
Category
OECC Awarded Paper

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