Photonic Switching

I Introduction to Photonic Switching.- Linking Technology and Applications.- Electronic Switching Technologies for Digital Logic.- Photonic Switching Components: Current Status and Future Possibilities.- Photonic Switching System/Network Architectural Possibilities.- II Photonic Switching Components.- Optoelectronic Hybrid Switching.- Photonic Switching with Stripe Domains.- Single-Mode Fiber Switch with Simultaneous Loop-Back Feature.- An All-Fibre Routing Switch.- An All-Optical Switch for Signal Routing Between Fibres.- Monolithically Integrated Optical Gate 2×2 Matrix Switch Using GaAs/AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Well Structure.- 4×4 Ti:LiNbO3 Switch Array with Full Broadcast Capability.- Hard Limiting Opto-electronic Logic Devices.- Nonlinear Optical Logic Etalon at Today's Fiber Communication Wavelengths.- Optical Threshold Mechanism Using the Fiber Coupled Phase Conjugate Mirror.- Operating Curves for Optical Bistable Devices.- Optical Amplifiers for Photonic Switches.- 170ps Fast Switching Response and 2Gbps Optical Memory Operation of Bistable Laser Diodes with Electrically Controlled Saturable Absorber.- An Ultrafast All-Optical Switch.- A Digital Electrooptic Switch.- III Nonlinear Optical Materials for Photonic Switching.- Silicon Injection-Mode 1.3µm Electro-optical Switching.- Room Temperature Excitonic Nonlinear Absorption in GaAs/AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Well Structures Grown Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD).- Design and Construction of Holographic Optical Elements for Photonic Switching Applications.- Organic Materials for Nonlinear Optics.- Physical and Optical Properties of Cd(Se,S) Microcrystallites in Glass.- The Dynamics of Photonic Switching in Indium Antimonide.- Fast All-Optical Switching in a Silicon-On-Sapphire Waveguide.- IVPhotonic Switching Architectures.- Optical Broadband Communications Network Architecture Utilizing Wavelength-Division Switching Technology.- Deterministic and Statistic Circuit Assignment Architectures for Optical Switching Systems.- Dilated Networks for Photonic Switching.- A New Architecture for Large Integrated Optical Switch-Arrays.- Photonic Time-Division Switching Technology.- Optimizing Photonic Variable-Integer-Delay Circuits.- A Photonic Switch Architecture Utilizing Code Division Multiplexing.- V Photonic Switching Systems.- Switching Requirements for Broadband ISDN.- Photonic Switching and Automatic Cross-Connect Systems.- Optical Switching in Coherent Lightwave Systems.- A Photonic Switching Demonstration Display.- Self-Routing Optical Switch with Optical Processing.- System Considerations for the Lithium Niobate Photonic Switching Technology.- Computational Properties of Nonlinear Optical Devices.- A 1.7 Gigabit-per-Second, Time-Multiplexed Photonic Switching Experiment.- 4-Gb/s Optical Time-Division Multiplexed System Experiments Using Ti:LiNbO3 Switch/Modulators.- Optical Amplification in Switching Networks.- Index of Contributors.