Detuning penalties for 10 Gb/s through a WDM cross-connect with 100 GHz spacing

Author

Rao, Hemonth

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

669

Abstract

Detuning measurements of 10 Gb/s NRZ data through three hops of a WDM system with 100 GHz spacing have been presented. Random misalignment of WDM components´ center frequencies have been included in the experiment. The three-hop detuning bandwidth was measured to be 25 GHz. Along with the variation of insertion loss with respect to optical frequency of each passband, the misalignment of successive passbands contributes to the reduction of end-to-end available bandwidth

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; demultiplexing; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical tuning; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; GHz spacing; Gb/s NRZ data; WDM cross-connect; WDM system; center frequencies; detuning penalties; end-to-end available bandwidth reduction; insertion loss; optical frequency; random misalignment; successive passbands; three-hop detuning bandwidth; Bandwidth; Frequency; Insertion loss; Low pass filters; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical losses; Optical signal processing; Passband; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.811904

Filename

811904