Title :
Fiber Bragg grating-based rearrangeable nonblocking optical cross connects using multiport optical circulators
Author :
Wu, Xiangnong ; Shen, Yunfeng ; Lu, Chao ; Cheng, T.H. ; Rao, M.K.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
fDate :
6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based rearrangeable nonblocking optical cross connects (OXC´s) using multiport optical circulators are proposed in this letter. The use of multiport optical circulators instead of three-port circulators can be more efficient for large optical cross connects systems. Performance evaluations of proposed large dimension optical cross connects are investigated.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; optical circulators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical interconnections; performance evaluation; reconfigurable architectures; wavelength division multiplexing; fiber Bragg grating-based rearrangeable nonblocking optical cross connects; large dimension optical cross connects; large optical cross connects systems; multiport optical circulators; performance evaluations; three-port circulators; Bragg gratings; Chaotic communication; Circulators; Fiber gratings; Insertion loss; Optical devices; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Piezoelectric transducers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
