Precise and high-speed lightwave control for huge-capacity transmission and advanced optical signal processing

Author

Kawanishi, Tetsuya ; Sakamoto, Takahide ; Chiba, Akito

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We present recent progress of high-speed Mach-Zehnder interferometer based device technologies for advanced modulation formats, and high-performance optical switching. Multi-level quadrature amplitude modulation signal can be synthesized by using parallel Mach-Zehnder modulators. Mach-Zehnder interferometer based switching devices can provide guard-time-free switching with 10-Gb/s signals.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical signal detection; optical switches; quadrature amplitude modulation; advanced optical signal processing; high-performance optical switching; high-speed Mach-Zehnder interferometer; high-speed lightwave control; huge-capacity transmission; multi-level quadrature amplitude modulation signal; High speed optical techniques; Lighting control; Optical control; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Quadrature phase shift keying; Signal generators; DQPSK; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; QAM; SWITCH; modulation; modulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185181

Filename

5185181