All optical wavelength converter and its application in optical network

All optical network （AON） is a hot topic in recent studies of optical fiber communications. Key techniques in AON include optical switching/routing, optical cross connection （OXC）, all optical wavelength conversion （AOWC）, all optical buffering, etc. Opti- cal switching/routing is in fact wavelength switching/ routing. OXC and wavelength conversion （WC） are introduced into cross nodes so that a virtual wavelength path is established. With WC, communication route is formed only if there is unused wavelength in an individual segment link. The rate wavelength usage is thus greatly increased. The blocking rate of network can be reduced by adding WCs, especially for huge capacity multiple nodes ones. Therefore, WC has attracted much attention in basic research of optical communication and is used in some experimental networks.This dissertation studies all optic wavelength conversion and its application, with the contributions in the following five aspects.

Investigation on performance of all optical buffer with large dynamical delay time based on cascaded double loop optical buffers

Optical buffers are critical for optical signal processing in future optical packet-switched networks. In this paper, a theoretical study as well as an experimental demonstration on a new optical buffer with large dynamical delay time is carried out based on cascaded double loop optical buffers （I：）LOBs）. It is found that pulse distortion can be restrained by a negative optical control mode when the optical packet is in the loop. Noise analysis indicates that it is feasible to realise a large variable delay range by cascaded DLOBs. These conclusions are validated by the experiment system with 4-stage cascaded DLOBs. Both the theoretical simulations and the experimental results indicate that a large delay range of 1-9999 times the basic delay unit and a fine granularity of 25 ns can be achieved by the cascaded DLOBs. The performance of the cascaded DLOBs is suitable for the all optical networks.

All optical artificial synapses based on long-afterglow material for optical neural network

Artificial neural network with broad application prospect has attracted particular attention due to the promise of solving the memory wall bottleneck.The neural devices that mix light and electricity provide more degrees of freedom for the design of artificial neural network,but they still do not get rid of the shackles that the response signal needs circuit to transmission.The exploration of all-optical neural devices(optical signal input and output)is expected to solve this problem.Here,an all-optical synaptic device simply based on a long-afterglow material is reported.The optical properties of the all-optical synaptic device are similar to the responses in biological synapses.Unique image displays and memory functions can be achieved by combining alloptical synaptic arrays with synaptic memory behavior.Furthermore,the optical summation of all-optical synaptic array pixels can be completed by combining the focusing characteristics of convex lens,which realizes the photon transmission after preprocessing multiple input signals.Particularly,the simple single-layer structure of all-optical synapses with polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS)as the carrier has high plasticity and is expected to achieve large-scale preparation.This work enriches the diversity of artificial synapses and shows the huge development potential of photoelectric artificial neural networks.

2-channel all optical demultiplexer based on photonic crystal ring resonator

In this paper, we proposed a 2-channel demultiplexer based on photonic crystal ring resonator （PCRR）. For performing wavelength selection, we used two ring resonators, two different wavelengths were obtained by using two resonant rings with different values for the radius of dielectric rods. All the simulations and calculations have been done using Rsoft Photonic CAD software, which employs finite difference time domain （FDTD） method. The output channels were respectively at 1590.8 and 1593.8nm, correspondingly had the quality factors of 7954 and 3984, the crosstalk values of -22 and -11 dB separately. The total footprint of our proposed structure is 681.36 μm2. Results suggest that 2-channels in the proposed structure are characterized with high transmission efficiency and low band width, resulting in a very sharp output spectrum and high quality factor values.

Controllable double electromagnetically induced transparency in a closed four-level-loop cavity-atom system

We present a theoretical study of an optical cavity coupled with single four-level atoms in closed loop formed via applied control lasers. The transmitted probe field from the cavity is analyzed. We show that the electromagnetically induced transparency（EIT） in the cavity and the normal mode splitting will be very different with changing the closed interaction phase and the intensity of the free-space control laser. This coupled cavity-atom system presents a variational double-EIT that comes from modulating the splitting of the dark state, which means that we could realize the gradual transfer between one EIT peak and two EIT peaks by adjusting the applied control lasers, and the normal mode splitting sidebands will shift slightly by changing the free-space control laser. This means that we could control the output cavity probe field more freely and it is easer to realize optical switch controlled by more parameters. We also depict the angular dispersion of the intracavity probe field in different free-space control laser. The large phase shift（-π → π） of the reflected intracavity probe field will be very useful for optical temporal differentiation and quantum phase gate.

Digital Optical Signal Amplifier Using an Er-doped Fiber Optical Bistable Device

The principle and charecteristics of verious digital optical signal amplifiers using Er doped fiber optical bistability devices have been discussed. Optical signal gain and its variation with the parameters of the devices with constant or pulse optical bias have been calculated, and the design principle of those devices has been given.

All-optical AND/OR/NOT logic gates based on photonic crystal ring resonators

Photonic crystal based ring resonators are best choice for designing all-optical devices. In this paper, we used a basic structure of photonic crystal ring resonators and designed all optical logic gates which are working using the Kerr effect. The proposed gates consisted of upper and lower wavegnides coupled through a resonator which was designed for dropping of special wavelength. The resonance wavelength was designed for 1550 nm telecom operation wavelength. We used numerical meth- ods such as plane wave expansion and finite difference time domain （FDTD） for performing our simulations and studied the optical properties of the proposed structures. Our results showed that the critical input power for triggering the gate output was lower compared to previously reported gates.

All-Optical Switches in Optical Time-Division Multiplexing Technology: Theory, Experience and Application

Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) is one of the promisinig ways for the future high speed optical fiber communication networks. All optical switch is, being one of the core technologies of OTDM systems and networks, crucial to realize the various signal processes including time division demultiplexing, packet switching, all optical regenerating and so on. This thesis mainly studies various all optical switch technologies and their utilization in the fields of all optical signal processings in the OTDM systems and networks. The main jobs are listed as follows.\; (1) A novel all optical ultrafast demultiplexing scheme using the soliton self trapping effect in birefringent fiber is proposed.\; (2) The demultiplexing performance of the Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror(NOLM) is thoroughly analyzed and its optimization is further discussed.\; (3) The performance analysis and the configuration optimization of the all optical switches based on the Semiconductor Optical Amplifier(SOA) are systematically presented. The speed limitation of the all optical SOA switches induced by the fast gain depletion of SOA is discussed. Besides, a novel SOA switch is proposed, which adopts the asymmetric Mach Zehnder Interferometer configuration.\; (4) The 8×2\^5 Gb/s OTDM experimental transmission system along 105 km standard fiber is realized using the NOLM demultiplexer.\; (5) The NOLM switch is used to realize the all optical 3R regeneration of 2\^5 Gb/s Return to Zero signal.\; (6) The feasibility and limitation of the all optical SOA packet switch is discussed. And a developed MZI configuration of SOA packet switch is further shown to improve the packet switching performance. Finally, an all optical packet dropping node suitable in the networks with ring or bus configuration and an all optical packet switching node in the ShuffleNet networks are proposed to show the feasibility of all optical packet switching through combining the all optical switches and the reasonable logic decisions.

Non-interferometric photoacoustic remote sensing microscopy

Elasto-optical refractive index modulation due to photoacoustic initial pressure transients produced significant reflection of a probe beam when the absorbing interface had an appreciable refractive index difference.This effect was harnessed in a new form of non-contact optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy called photoacoustic remote sensing microscopy.A noninterferometric system architecture with a low-coherence probe beam precludes detection of surface oscillations and other phase-modulation phenomenon.The probe beam was confocal with a scanned excitation beam to ensure detection of initial pressure-induced intensity reflections at the subsurface origin where pressures are largest.Phantom studies confirmed signal dependence on optical absorption,index contrast and excitation fluence.In vivo imaging of superficial microvasculature and melanoma tumors was demonstrated with~2.7±0.5μm lateral resolution.

A New RWA Algorithm Based on Multi-Objective

In this article, we studied the associated research problems and challenges on routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) in WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) networks. Various RWA approaches are examined and compared. We proposed a new RWA algorithm based on multi-objective. In this new algorithm, we consider multiple network optimizing objectives to setup a lightpath with maximize profit and shortest path under the limited resources. By comparing and analyzing, the proposed algorithm is much better ...