DocumentCode
2020749
Title
10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s WDM multi-casting using a hybrid integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Author
Reading-Picopoulos, D. ; Wang, F. ; Chai, Y.J. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ.
fYear
2006
fDate
5-10 March 2006
Abstract
WDM multi-casting is experimentally demonstrated by performing all-optical simultaneous multi-wavelength conversion at 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s using a hybrid integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer. At 40 Gb/s a Q factor degradation smaller than 0.63 was obtained for all channels
Keywords
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Q-factor; multicast communication; optical fibre communication; optical wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Q factor; WDM multicasting; hybrid integrated interferometer; multiwavelength conversion; Chirp modulation; Delay effects; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical transmitters; Pulse modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Conference_Location
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-803-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OFC.2006.216031
Filename
1637062
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