Fully-connectorized, high-speed Ti:LiNbO(3) switch/modulator for time-division multiplexing and data encoding.

We demonstrate a fully-connectorized and packaged, 2X1 high- speed TiLiNbO(3) directional coupler switch suitable for both optical time-division multiplexing/demultiplexing and modulation at 1.3micron wavelength. The device has an intrinsic switching time of 60 ps and a small-signal, 50 percent modulation depth bandwidth of 6 GHz. We have actively multiplexed two optical pulse streams with output non-return-to-zero (NRZ) center-to- center bit spacings of less than 100 ps, while incurring an average optical power penalty of only 0.5 dB.