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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Optics Volume 2012, Article ID 575429, 25 pages doi:10.1155/2012/575429 Review Article Review of Robust Data Exchange Using Optical Nonlinearities Jian Wang1, 2 and Alan E. Willner2 1 Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, Wuhan 430074, China 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Jian Wang, jwang@ Received 13 July 2011; Accepted 4 November 2011 Academic Editor: Giulio Cerullo Copyright © 2012 J. Wang and A. E. Willner. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Data exchange, namely bidirectional information swapping, provides enhanced flexibility compared to the unidirectional information transfer. To fulfill the rapid development of high-speed large-capacity optical communications with emerging multiplexing/demultiplexing techniques and advanced modulation formats, a laudable goal would be to achieve data exchange in different degrees of freedom (wavelength, time, polarization), for different modulation formats (OOK, DPSK, DQPSK, pol- muxed), and at different granularities (entire data, groups of bits, tributary channels). Optical nonlinearities are potentially suitable candidates to enable data exchange in the wavelength, time, and polarization domains. In this paper, we will review our recent works towards robust data exchange by exploiting miscellaneous optical nonlinearities,