All-Optical Signal Processing: Data Communication and Storage Applications

✍ Scribed by Stefan Wabnitz, Benjamin J. Eggleton (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 525
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 194
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the art of optical signal processing technologies and devices. It presents breakthrough solutions for enabling a pervasive use of optics in data communication and signal storage applications. It presents presents optical signal processing as solution to overcome the capacity crunch in communication networks. The book content ranges from the development of innovative materials and devices, such as graphene and slow light structures, to the use of nonlinear optics for secure quantum information processing and overcoming the classical Shannon limit on channel capacity and microwave signal processing.

Although it holds the promise for a substantial speed improvement, today’s communication infrastructure optics remains largely confined to the signal transport layer, as it lags behind electronics as far as signal processing is concerned. This situation will change in the near future as the tremendous growth of data traffic requires energy efficient and fully transparent all-optical networks. The book is written by leaders in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Materials and Structures for Nonlinear Photonics....Pages 1-33
CMOS Compatible Platforms for Integrated Nonlinear Optics....Pages 35-70
Optical Guided Wave Switching....Pages 71-104
Temporal and Spectral Nonlinear Pulse Shaping Methods in Optical Fibers....Pages 105-128
Optical Regeneration....Pages 129-155
Photonic Signal Processing for Logic and Computation....Pages 157-183
Wide-Band and Noise-Inhibited Signal Manipulation in Dispersion-Engineered Parametric Mixers....Pages 185-216
All-Optical Pulse Shaping for Highest Spectral Efficiency....Pages 217-260
Energy-Efficient Optical Signal Processing Using Optical Time Lenses....Pages 261-289
Signal Processing Using Opto-Electronic Devices....Pages 291-323
Optical Information Capacity Processing....Pages 325-354
Nonlinear Optics for Photonic Quantum Networks....Pages 355-421
Biphoton Pulse Shaping....Pages 423-448
Harnessing Nonlinear Optics for Microwave Signal Processing....Pages 449-467
Ultrafast Optical Techniques for Communication Networks and Signal Processing....Pages 469-503
Back Matter....Pages 505-512

✦ Subjects

Optics and Electrodynamics; Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices