Characterization of switching windows of an 160-Gb/s all-optical demultiplexer with data base rates of 10 and 40 Gb/s

Author

Toptchiyski, G. ; Randel, S. ; Petermann, K. ; Schubert, C. ; Berger, J. ; Weber, H.G.

Author_Institution

Fachgebiet Hochfrequenztechnik, Berlin, Germany

Volume

14

Issue

4

fYear

2002

fDate

4/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

534

Lastpage

536

Abstract

Theoretical and experimental switching windows for all-optical demultiplexing from 160 to 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s, using a gain-transparent ultrafast nonlinear interferometer are presented. Based on these results we determined the maximum transmittance and the integrated contrast ratio, measures for switching losses and crosstalk from neighboring channels, respectively. Demultiplexing to 40 Gb/s (as compared to 10 Gb/s) leads to 6 dB lower maximum transmittance and 3 dB higher integrated contrast ratio (lower crosstalk).

Keywords

demultiplexing; electro-optical switches; high-speed optical techniques; light interferometers; optical crosstalk; optical losses; telecommunication channels; time division multiplexing; transparency; 10 Gbit/s; 160 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; Gb/s all-optical demultiplexer; all-optical demultiplexing; crosstalk; data base rates; experimental switching windows; gain-transparent ultrafast nonlinear interferometer; integrated contrast ratio; lower crosstalk; lower maximum transmittance; maximum transmittance; neighboring channels; switching losses; switching windows; Birefringence; Demultiplexing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Radiative recombination; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Switches; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.992602

Filename

992602