Reconfigurable OTDM Demultiplexing Using FWM in Highly Nonlinear Fiber and a Tunable Planar Lightwave Circuit

Author

Samadi, Payman ; Chen, Lawrence R. ; Kostko, Irina A. ; Dumais, Patrick ; Callender, Claire L. ; Jacob, Sarkis ; Shia, Brian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada

Volume

24

Issue

1

fYear

2012

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

15

Abstract

We demonstrate reconfigurable demultiplexing of arbitrary single or multiple 10 Gb/s tributary channels from a higher rate 40 Gb/s data signal using a programmable planar lightwave circuit (PLC) and four-wave mixing (FWM). The PLC is a thermally tunable six-stage lattice-form Mach-Zehnder interferometer fabricated in silica-on-silicon. We present results for optical time-division-multiplexing (OTDM) demultiplexing of both return-to-zero on-off keying (RZ-OOK) and differential phase-shift-keying (RZ-DPSK) data.

Keywords

demultiplexing; light interferometers; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; FWM; Mach Zehnder interferometer; PLC; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; data signal; four wave mixing; highly nonlinear fiber; optical time division multiplexing; reconfigurable OTDM demultiplexing; thermally tunable six stage; tunable planar lightwave circuit; Demultiplexing; Dispersion; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical pulses; Nonlinear optical signal processing; optical time-division-multiplexing (OTDM) demultiplexing; planar lightwave circuits (PLCs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2171937

Filename

6045307