naa a22 4500 510729142 CHVBK 20180411082946.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12200-012-0297-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12200-012-0297-3 Review on SOA-MZI-based photonic add/drop and switching operations [Elektronische Daten] [Claudio Porzi, Giovanni Serafino, Sergio Pinna, An Nguyen, Giampiero Contestabile, Antonella Bogoni] Semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach-Zehnder interferometer (SOA-MZI) is a technologically mature optical device that can be exploited for a wide range of operations on both amplitude and phase modulated signals, with performance limited by the carrier lifetime in the SOAs. Recent advances on SOA structures have demonstrated their suitability for high quality, ultra-fast photonic signal processing, making SOA-MZI a good candidate for elaborating signals in new generation high-capacity optical networks. Dynamic wavelength switching/routing and add/drop operations are expected to bring benefits in future optical networks in terms of improved system flexibility and efficiency. The capability of performing such operations directly in the optical domain can significantly reduce the number of opto/electrical and electro/optical conversions in the routing nodes, reducing their power consumption and their latency time. Moreover, since phase-shift keying (PSK) formats or other advanced modulation formats involving both amplitude and phase modulation, start to coexist in optical communication systems with the conventional on-off keying (OOK) modulation format, the availability of a single device, suitable for processing all these different signals, is mandatory. The SOA-MZI fits all these requirements for both OOK and constant-envelope phase-modulated signals, providing a compact and flexible solution. Here we review on the use of the SOA-MZI for carrying out alloptical switching operations, by realizing wavelength conversion and add/drop functionalities, both for OOK and differential binary phase shift keying (DPSK) signals up to 40 Gb/s. Power penalties lower than 2 dB are demonstrated in all cases. Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013 all-optical signal processing nationallicence wavelength conversion nationallicence semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach-Zehnder interferometer (SOA-MZI) nationallicence Porzi Claudio The TeCIP Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy aut Serafino Giovanni The TeCIP Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy aut Pinna Sergio The TeCIP Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy aut Nguyen An Centre d'optique, photonique et laser, Université Laval, 2375 rue de la Terrasse, local 2104, G1V 0A6, Québec, Canada aut Contestabile Giampiero The TeCIP Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy aut Bogoni Antonella CNIT, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy aut Frontiers of Optoelectronics SP Higher Education Press 6/1(2013-03-01), 67-77 2095-2759 6:1<67 2013 6 12200 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-012-0297-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-012-0297-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Porzi Claudio The TeCIP Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Serafino Giovanni The TeCIP Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pinna Sergio The TeCIP Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nguyen An Centre d'optique, photonique et laser, Université Laval, 2375 rue de la Terrasse, local 2104, G1V 0A6, Québec, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Contestabile Giampiero The TeCIP Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bogoni Antonella CNIT, via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Frontiers of Optoelectronics SP Higher Education Press 6/1(2013-03-01), 67-77 2095-2759 6:1<67 2013 6 12200 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer