Advances in Opto Electronics

• Optoelectronics is where electronics was 15 years back

• All Optical Amplifiers and Semiconductor Amplifiers

• Fastest Semiconductor (InP) switch is at 170GHz- where is terrabit ?

• MEMS based switches that route traffic at wavelength level

• Raman Amplifiers

• Terrahertz Optical Asymmetrical Demux (TOAD)

• Ultrafast Nonlinear Interferometer (UNI), Nonlinear Waveguide Switch (NLWG), Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror (NOLM)

• Optical Switching at packet level -a reality soon