{"title":"Measurement of the Spatial Uniformity of a Large Field Microstructured Retarder","authors":"A. Urbańczyk, M. Schumann, B. Blast, A. Gombert","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2006.248530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248530","url":null,"abstract":"We report on experimental characterization of a microstructured optical retarder fabricated using interference lithography technique. The microstructured element is designed to be a quarter-wave plate in visible range. The measurements of retardation distribution were carried out against wavelength in incoherent light using a rotating analyzer technique. We also investigated the dependence of retardation upon angle of incidence for two orientations of the rotation axis. The measurements showed that the birefringent microstructured element is relatively uniform and introduces 70deg retardation at lambda=510 nm","PeriodicalId":208725,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133401260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Chlestil, E. Leitgeb, N. Schmitt, S. Muhammad, K. Zettl, Wolfgang Rehm
{"title":"Reliable Optical Wireless Links within UAV Swarms","authors":"C. Chlestil, E. Leitgeb, N. Schmitt, S. Muhammad, K. Zettl, Wolfgang Rehm","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2006.248491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248491","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) flying in swarm formations carrying a variety of sensors for monitoring and surveillance is in fact a future application for both civil and military use. Different requirements of guidance and control of UAV were already identified; however, the communication facilities between mobile platforms and air-to-ground links are restricted to low bit rate radio based technology. In the near term data rates in the area of 100 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s will be needed to handle multiple sensor information in real-time and in parallel. Thus, UAV equipped with free space optics (FSO) will emerge as a challenging new needs for large data transfer in real time. With data rate capabilities of up to 2.5 Gbit/s the FSO surpass all possible microwave and RF solutions","PeriodicalId":208725,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133487911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Durán, I. de Miguel, N. Merayo, P. Fernández, F. A. Lago, J. Aguado, J. Blas, R. Lorenzo, E. Abril
{"title":"Multipurpose Genetic Algorithm Based in Pareto Optimality to Design Logical Topologies in Reconfigurable WDM Networks","authors":"R. Durán, I. de Miguel, N. Merayo, P. Fernández, F. A. Lago, J. Aguado, J. Blas, R. Lorenzo, E. Abril","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2006.248509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248509","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a novel multipurpose genetic algorithm based in Pareto optimality to design logical topologies for wavelength-routed optical networks with the aim of minimizing both the global average end-to-end delay and the average end-to-end delay of the most delayed traffic flow. The algorithm determines which nodes should be connected by means of lightpaths, solves the routing and wavelength assignment problem, and routes the traffic in the logical topology. When compared with another multipurpose genetic algorithm based in random selections of two fitness functions (one for each parameter to be optimized), the novel algorithm leads to reductions of up to 5% in both parameters","PeriodicalId":208725,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133261449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Tanaka, M. Hentschel, T. Fukushima, T. Harayama
{"title":"Directional Emission Patterns from the Oval-Billiard Microcavity Laser Diodes","authors":"T. Tanaka, M. Hentschel, T. Fukushima, T. Harayama","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2006.248453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248453","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the lasing characteristics of oval-resonator laser diodes made of AlGaAs/GaAs quantum wells both experimentally and theoretically. The resonator shapes are various oval geometries, thereby probing chaotic and mixed classical dynamics. The far field pattern shows a pronounced fine structure that strongly depends on the cavity shape","PeriodicalId":208725,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123182868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimental Demonstration of Distortionless Slow and Fast Light Generation by Use of Soliton Collision in Optical Fiber","authors":"A. Maruta, T. Kunihiro, A. Maeda","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2006.248235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248235","url":null,"abstract":"Optical solitons at different frequencies can pass through each other without variations of their waveforms, frequencies, and energies except their temporal positions and phases. This peculiar feature of optical soliton can be used to generate distortionless slow or fast light in optical fiber","PeriodicalId":208725,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131283977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"InGaAsP/InGaAs Quantum Well Lasers using Hollow Square Microcavities","authors":"H. Moon, You-Yong Jin, K. Hyun, Yong-Hwan Kwon","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2006.248542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248542","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated semiconductor lasers using hollow square microcavities with various corner shapes. For hollow square cavities with 45deg-tilted or convex-shaped corners, the ring-type WGMs originating total reflection of light at 4 corners were lased. While the lasing modes from a hollow cavity with concave-shaped asymmetric corners were 12 bounce guided modes originating total reflection at both (inner and outer) flat boundaries. We confirmed the lasing of guided modes by analyzing reduced mode spacing. The quality factor was smaller than that of ring-type WGMs due to the enhanced reflection loss","PeriodicalId":208725,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131672026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis for Dynamic Characteristics and Relative Intensity Noise of a New Polarization-Insensitive Quantum Well Structure Optoelectronic Integrated Device","authors":"Vahid Ahmadi, E. Darabi","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2006.248361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248361","url":null,"abstract":"A polarization-insensitive optoelectronic integrated device composed of a tensile strained periodic coupled double quantum wells heterojunction phototransistor integrated over a compressive strained multi quantum well laser diode (MQW-LD) is proposed. This structure shows unresolved heavy hole and light hole transitions. So, the device operation mode (amplification or switching) is independent of input light polarization. A rigorous numerical analysis for dynamic response and relative intensity noise of the device is presented. The model is based on device rate equations, for which we require to calculate the MQW-LD gain and phototransistor electroabsorption coefficient. The Hamiltonian of strained QW structure is numerically solved by transfer matrix method taking into account the band mixing between heavy hole and light hole. In order to calculate the electroabsorption coefficient, the exciton equation is solved numerically in momentum space using Gaussian quadrature method. Langevin noise sources in laser part, phototransistor current noise, input power noise and noise due to the internal optical feedback from laser to phototransistor are considered as the device noise sources","PeriodicalId":208725,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131859820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redundancy, Restorability and Path Availability in Optical Mesh Networks","authors":"M. Held, Ling Zhou","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2006.248416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248416","url":null,"abstract":"A new calculation method to estimate path availability under dual failure scenarios for networks designed for 100% restorability against single span failures is presented. This method is applicable to all survivability schemes and considers their respective restoration or protection effect. A case study calculates the availability of all service paths within a long haul network under four protection/restoration strategies: dedicated automatic protection switching, shared backup path protection, span restoration and protection-cycles. The availability optimization potential is estimated based on measures for standard network redundancy and dual failure restorability. Assets and drawbacks of survivability schemes are compared from the availability and capacity efficiency point of view","PeriodicalId":208725,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115416948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Single-Emitter Laser in a Photonic Band Gap Micro-Chip","authors":"L. Florescu, S. John","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2006.248526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248526","url":null,"abstract":"We study a laser consisting of a coherently pumped two-level emitter coupled to both a multimode waveguide channel and a high-quality micro-cavity embedded within a photonic crystal. One mode is engineered to exhibit a sharp cutoff within the PBG, leading to a large discontinuity in the local photon density of states near the atom. Another mode of the waveguide channel is used to propagate the pump beam. The cavity field characteristics are highly distinct from those of a corresponding high-Q cavity in ordinary vacuum. We demonstrate strong enhancement of the cavity field, better coherence, and narrower emission spectrum resulting from the radiation reservoir of the photonic crystal","PeriodicalId":208725,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114362148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. T. Neves, F. Kuller, H. Kalinowski, J. Fabris, A. Pohl
{"title":"Two-channel CWDM OADM Based on Large Bandwidth Fibre Bragg Gratings","authors":"P. T. Neves, F. Kuller, H. Kalinowski, J. Fabris, A. Pohl","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2006.248274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2006.248274","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the fabrication of large bandwidth (12 nm) FBG and its application in two-channel CWDM optical add/drop multiplexer. The OADM allows complete channel dropping, showing a suppression ratio of over 20 dB between adjacent channels","PeriodicalId":208725,"journal":{"name":"2006 International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks","volume":"23 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123477998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}