Experimental demonstration of reconfigurable and simultaneous wavelength-division-multiplexed multiple-plane optical interconnections

Author

Leight, J.E. ; Homan, S. ; Willner, A.E. ; Giaretta, G. ; Li, M.Y. ; Chang-Hasnain, C.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

8

Issue

2

fYear

1996

Firstpage

302

Lastpage

304

Abstract

We report the first experimental demonstration of using wavelength-division-multiplexing and wavelength-selective-detection to facilitate either reconfigurable or simultaneous optical interconnections between one source plane and many detector planes. We show the 10/sup -9/ BER, 155 Mb/s transmission and detection of three different wavelength-multiplexed signals at three detector planes. The reconfigurable interconnection is established with a wavelength separation of 10 nm, and the simultaneous interconnection is established with a wavelength separation of 43 nm.

Keywords

optical interconnections; optical transmitters; photodetectors; reconfigurable architectures; wavelength division multiplexing; 155 Mbit/s; detector planes; reconfigurable wavelength-division-multiplexed multiple-plane optical interconnections; simultaneous optical interconnections; source plane; wavelength separation; wavelength-division-multiplexing; wavelength-multiplexed signals; wavelength-selective-detection; Bit error rate; Detectors; High speed optical techniques; Optical arrays; Optical interconnections; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.484274

Filename

484274