Springer Electronics and Photonics

I Introduction and Overview.- Trends in Electronic Communication Switching Technologies.- Trends in Photonic Science and Technology: Implications for Photonic Switching.- Role of Optical Amplifiers in Realizing All-Optical Communication Networks.- Nonlinear Optical Devices for Photonic Switching.- Photonic Switching Fabrics Based on S-SEED Arrays.- II Electrically Controlled Switches.- Bandfilling or Stark Effect for Photonic Switching - A Comparison.- Electrorefractive Waveguide Devices Using Tunable Electron Density Quantum Wells.- GaAs/AlGaAs Reflection-Type Optical Switch Using Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Waveguide Structure.- Insertion Loss Reduction of InP Based Carrier-Injection-Type Optical S3 Switch.- Design and Performance of Monolithic LD Optical Matrix Switches.- Polarization and Wavelength Independent Four-Port Optical Routing Switch with Semiconductor Y-Junction Optical Cross-Points.- 4 x 4 GaAs/AlGaAs Optical Matrix Switches with Electro-Optic Guided-Wave Directional Couplers.- Photonic Spatial Logic Operations Using a Beam Scanning Laser Diode.- Cross-Coupled Lateral Modes in a Twin-Stripe Laser: Analysis Leading to the Mechanism and Bistability.- Low Drive Voltage Directional Coupler Optical Switch with Reduced Voltage-Length Product.- A Broadband, Low Driving Voltage 2 x 2 Ti:LiNbO3 Optical Switch.- Asymmetric Mach-Zehnder Band Modulator with Phase Reversed Traveling-Wave Electrode.- Polarization Beam Splitter Switch with Controlled Silica Waveguide Birefringence on Si Substrate.- III Optically Controlled Switches.- Light-Controlled Optical Modulation by Quantum Well Structure.- All-Optical Multiple Quantum Well Grating Switch.- All-Optical Set-Reset Operation of a Bistable Laser Diode at a Repetition Rate of 100 MHz.- Electrically and Optically Controlled p-i(MQW)-n Vertical Coupler Switch with Electro-Optic Feedback.- Side-Diode-Injection Laser for Optical Logic.- Optical Flip-Flops Using Two Nonlinear Etalons.- An Erbium-Doped Fiber Active Switch Controlled by Coded Pump Light.- Demonstration of 50 Gb/s All-Optical Kerr Demultiplexing Utilizing Pump-Probe Pulse Walk-off in Optical Fibers.- Ultrafast, Low Power, and Highly Stable All-Optical Switching in an All Polarization Maintaining Fiber Sagnac Interferometer.- Optical Bistability in a Tapered Multimode Fiber with a Nonlinear Overlay.- Ultrafast Switching Using Two-Color Soliton Collisions.- IV Free-Space Devices.- Two-Dimensional Array Microlasers for Photonic Switching.- Top-Surface-Emitting GaAs Four-Quantum-Well Lasers Emitting at 0.85 ?m.- Photonic Parallel Memory.- Realization of a Graded-Threshold Function Using an AlGaAs/GaAs pnpn Optical Switch.- An Injection Controlled Optically Bistable Switch.- Demonstration of Optical Gating Using a Semiconductor-Doped Glass Etalon.- InGaAs/InP MQW Modulators with Enhanced Performance: Symmetrical Coupled Wells and Double-Sided Epitaxy.- Photonic Switching and SEED Effect in AlGaAs/GaAs DFB Structures Grown by MOVPE.- Improving the Performance of Large Arrays of Symmetric Self Electro-optic Effect Devices.- V Free-Space Switching.- A 3D Crossover Switching Network Based on S-SEED Arrays.- A Polarization-Switched Optically Reconfigurable Interconnection Network.- Two-Dimensional Multichannel Optical Switch.- A Rearrangeable Multichannel Free-Space Optical Switch Using a Polarization-Multiplexing Technique.- Scale Estimation of a Two-Dimensional Optical Concentrator Using Position Shifters.- Free-Space Multistage Optical Interconnection Networks Using Micro Lens Arrays.- Multistage Interconnection Networks and d-Dimensional Architectures.- VI Wavelength-Based Devices.- Frequency Conversion by Four-Wave-Mixing in LD Amplifiers.- Gigabit Operation of a Wavelength-Conversion Laser.- Spectral Bistability in Multielectrode DFB Lasers.- Tunable Fiber Ring Lasers with an Electrically Accessible Acousto-optic Filter.- Integrated Optical Switches for Wavelength-Division-Multiplex Communication Using Collinear Acousto-optic Interactions.- VII Wavelength-Based Switching.- Optical FDM Technologies for Future Lightwave Networks.- Lightwave Frequency-Controlling Technologies for FDM Switching Star Network.- Dynamic Wavelength Tuning for Broadband Optical Packet Switching.- Dense FDM Coherent Optical Switching System.- An Optical Phase-Locked Loop Using an Acousto-optic Frequency Shifter.- A 2.5 Gb/s Optical FDM Switch Experiment with a 15,000 GHz Tuning Range.- Application of Optical FSK Signals to Wavelength-Division Switching Systems.- Photonic Wavelength-Division Switching Network Using a Parallel ?-Switch.- VIII Self-Routing Switching.- Ultrafast Photonic Packet Switch with Optical Output Buffer.- Photonic ATM Switching Network.- ATM Photonic Switching Node Architecture Based on Frequency Switching Techniques.- A New Timing Architecture for Optical ATM Switching Systems.- All-Optical Self-Routing Crossbar Switch.- Photonic Lattice Type Self-Routing Switching Network.- IX Space-Division Switching.- Lithium Niobate Devices and Their Role in Photonic Switching.- Size, Transparency and Control in Optical Space Switch Fabrics: A 16x16 Single Chip Array in Lithium Niobate and Its Applications.- Photonic SD-Switching for Subscriber Networks in B-ISDN.- High-Isolation Optoelectronic Switch Matrix.- Optical Switches Using Liquid Crystals.- Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal 4 x 4 Optical Interconnect.- AlGaAs Grating Surface-Emitting Beam Deflector for a 1 x N Space-Division Optical Switch.- Application of Single-Stage Electronic Networks Concepts to Photonic Switching.- Two-Dimensional Photonic Switching Network Using Waveguide Optics.- X Systems Considerations.- Multidimensional Photonic Switches.- Photonic Switching Network Utilizing Wavelength Multiplexing.- High-Frequency Operation of an All-Optical Synchronization Circuit.- Consideration of Optical Channel Number and Data/Frame Phase Tolerance for the Photonic Ring Highway.- Line Capacity Consideration for a Photonic Space-Division Switching System with Switch Matrices and Optical Amplifiers.- Optical Switched-Star Networks for Computer-System Interconnection.- Optoelectronic Switching for Radar Steering.- Index of Contributors.