In recent years, with the rapid exhaustion of the capacity in wide area networks led by Internet and multimedia applications, demand for high bandwidth has been growing at a very fast pace. Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is a promising technique for utilizing the huge available bandwidth in optical fibers. In this paper, we consider efficient designs of nonblocking WDM permutation switc...

This paper proposes an architecture for a wavelength-interchanging cross-connect (WIXC) that can be used as a switching node of strictly transparent and scalable networks with all-optical routing and all-optical wavelength conversion capabilities. This architecture utilizes all-optical parametric wavelength converters based on difference-frequencygeneration (DFG) or four-wave mixing (FWM), alth...

In this paper we have numerically analyzed terahertzrange wavelength conversion using nondegenerate four wave mixing (NDFWM) in a SOA integrated DFB laser (experiments reported both in MIT electronics and Fujitsu research laboratories). For analyzing semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), we use finitedifference beam propagation method (FDBPM) based on modified nonlinear SchrÖdinger equation an...

We present a distributed wavelength assignment algorithm named Priority-based Wavelength Assignment (PWA) for the contention resolution problem in buffer-less burst optical networks without wavelength conversion capability. Simulation results show that the PWA can effectively reduce the blocking probability and increase the performance of burst optical networks compared to previous algorithms s...

In this paper it is proposed a new wavelength converter placement scheme called First Load Priority FLP, useful for designing and planning of optical networks with sparsepartial wavelength conversion architecture. A performance evaluation of FLP working in different scenarios is provided. Comparing to other wavelength converter placement schemes like MBPF, TOT and XC, FLP achieved better perfor...

We demonstrate compact optical wavelength conversion architecture for picosecond laser pulses and data streams within photonic band gap waveguides. These multimode waveguides are seeded with resonantly driven, inhomogeneously broadened, distributions of quantum dots whose optical transition center frequency is placed near a sharp discontinuity in the local electromagnetic density of states LDOS...

A novel scheme of optical label encoding by wavelength conversion based on electroabsorption modulators (EAMs) is reported. Based on the experimental observations, the chirp properties of the wavelength-converted signal are discussed and a wide dynamic range of the chirp -parameter is found allowed. Compared with cross-gain modulation (XGM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), the EAM ha...

All-optical wavelength conversion is investigated using fourwave mixing in silicon waveguides. The influences of nonlinear losses caused by two-photon absorption (TPA) and TPA-induced free-carrier absorption on the conversion efficiency and phase-matching condition are analyzed. The conversion bandwidth is tempted to enhance by optimizing the waveguide geometry and using the two-pump regime. An...

Optical burst switching (OBS) is a promising switching technology for realization of terabit optical network because it offers a very high bit-rate transport service that is potentially bandwidth-efficient and costeffective in terms of network infrastructure. However, the lack of optical processing capability of OBS technology results in increased blocking probability and limits the network per...