Design and preliminary implementation of an N × N diffractive all-optical fiber optic switch

Brittany Lynn; Pierre Alexandre Blanche; Alexander Miles; John Wissinger; Daniel Carothers; Lloyd Lacomb; Robert A. Norwood; Nasser Peyghambarian

doi:10.1109/JLT.2013.2280431

Design and preliminary implementation of an N × N diffractive all-optical fiber optic switch

Brittany Lynn, Pierre Alexandre Blanche, Alexander Miles, John Wissinger, Daniel Carothers, Lloyd Lacomb, Robert A. Norwood, Nasser Peyghambarian

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Abstract

We have demonstrated a diffraction-based nonblocking, scalable N × N optical switch employing a digital micromirror display (DMD) with 12 μs switching speed, performing 100 times faster than the currently available technology. The distributed nature of diffraction makes this switch more robust than one-to-one reflective systems where a single mirror failure incapacitates an entire connection. We thereby address a key bottleneck in data centers and optical aggregation networks by decreasing circuit-switching speed and allowing for facile port count scalability.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	6588560
Pages (from-to)	4016-4021
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	31
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2013.2280431
State	Published - Dec 15 2013

Keywords

Digital micromirror device (DMD)
free-space optical switch
optical crossconnect
optical switch
reconfigurable hologram
spatial light modulator (SLM)
storage area networks (SANs)

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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