Recent advances in develo** nonlinear optical techniques for processing serial digital
information at high speed are reviewed. The field has been transformed by the advent of …

A device capable of demultiplexing Tb/s pulse trains that requires less than 1 pJ of switching
energy and can be integrated on a chip is presented. The device consists of an optical …

A comprehensive treatise on the components and devices of the lightwave explosion
Multiple advances in lightwave technology have led to a veritable overload of global …

The processing of optical signals in the optical domain is an important issue resulting from
the desire to take advantage of the full bandwidth of the optical fiber. In this paper, we …

Recent progress in optical time-division-multiplexed (TDM) transmission technologies is
reviewed including optical short pulse generation, time-division multiplexing/demultiplexing …

To deploy and operate a quantum network which utilizes existing telecommunications
infrastructure, it is necessary to be able to route entangled photons at high speeds, with …

This review discusses the physical mechanisms of absorptive and dispersive nonlinearity in
amplifiers resulting from interband and intraband electron transitions, with an assessment of …

We report on the experimental demonstration of ultrafast all-optical switching and
wavelength down-conversion based on a novel nonlinear Mach-Zehnder interferometer with …

Asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) configurations are proposed to build all-
optical space switches with gain and principally ideal extinction ratios. Actually, three …

We present a theoretical analysis of recently demonstrated ultrafast all-optical interferometric
switching devices (based on Sagnac and Mach–Zehnder interferometers) that use a large …