All optical packet power equalizer realized by nonlinear micro ring resonator loaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure

Author

Bhowmik, B.B. ; Gupta, Swastik ; Gangopadhyay, Ranjan

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Indian Inst. of Technol. Patna, Patna, India

fYear

2013

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An all-optical packet power equalizer is proposed using nonlinear micro ring resonator loaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure (MRR-MZI). Using the optimized parameters of the MRR-MZI structure, the optical packets experiencing 7 dB peak power variation have been equalized. The power equalization capability of both symmetric and asymmetric configurations of MRR-MZI has been demonstrated using detailed numerical simulation.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; equalisers; micromechanical resonators; all-optical packet power equalizer; asymmetric configurations; nonlinear micro ring resonator loaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure; numerical simulation; power equalization capability; symmetric configurations; Equalizers; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical ring resonators; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Mech-Zehnder Interferometer; Micro-ring resonator; Optical power equalizer; nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhanbad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2176-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMAP.2013.6733540

Filename

6733540