Experimental demonstration of fast simultaneous wavelength switching and time demultiplexing using a nonlinear optical loop mirror

Author

Chen, Xiaopeng ; Hoanca, Bogdan ; Feng, Kai-Ming ; Cai, Jin-Xing ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

9

Issue

7

fYear

1997

fDate

7/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

919

Lastpage

921

Abstract

Simultaneous all-optical high-speed wavelength switching and time demultiplexing is experimentally demonstrated using a nonlinear optical loop mirror, an integrated passive wavelength router, and fast optical space switches. With >1.2-GHz wavelength switching speeds and 2.5 Gb/s time demultiplexing speeds, both packet switching and isolated-bit extraction are demonstrated. The time switching can potentially be applied to data rates >100 Gb/s.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical switches; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.2 GHz; 100 Gbit/s; 2.5 Gbit/s; NOLM; WDM-TDM; all-optical high-speed wavelength switching; data rates; fast optical space switches; fast simultaneous wavelength switching; integrated passive wavelength router; isolated-bit extraction; nonlinear optical loop mirror; packet switching; time demultiplexing; Data mining; Demultiplexing; High speed optical techniques; Integrated optics; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Packet switching; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.593348

Filename

593348