Title :
Optical buffer configuration based on a 3×3 collinear fibre coupler
Author :
Liu, A.M. ; Wu, C.Q. ; Lim, M.S. ; Gong, Y.D. ; Shum, P.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., China
Abstract :
A novel optical buffer configuration based on a 3×3 collinear fibre coupler is presented. 100 Mbit/s and 2.5 Gbit/s data rate ´storage and erasure´ operation have been demonstrated and more than 1ms storage time achieved.
Keywords :
buffer storage; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre networks; packet switching; wavelength division multiplexing; 100 Mbit/s; 2.5 Gbit/s; WDM; collinear fibre coupler; data rate storage; optical buffer configuration; optical fibre amplifiers; packet switching;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20045145
