Multiwavelength bidirectional optical crossconnect using fiber Bragg gratings and polarization beam splitter

Author

Park, Se-Kang ; Park, Jin-Woo ; Lee, Sang-Rok ; Yoon, Hong ; Lee, Sang-Bae ; Choi, Sang-Sam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

12

Issue

7

fYear

2000

fDate

7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

888

Lastpage

890

Abstract

We propose a multiwavelength bidirectional optical crossconnect (B-OXC) structure based on fiber Bragg gratings (FBG´s) and polarization beam splitters (PBS´s). A 2/spl times/2 B-OXC system is implemented using four pairs of short period gratings and two PBS´s, in order to experimentally evaluate the performance of the proposed B-OXC system. Loss characteristics are discussed with experimental measurements, and the bit-error rate (BER) performance, the typical channel crosstalk suppression, and the switching time are also measured.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; optical beam splitters; optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical interconnections; optical losses; optical polarisers; wavelength division multiplexing; bit-error rate performance; channel crosstalk suppression; fiber Bragg gratings; loss characteristics; multiwavelength bidirectional optical crossconnect; polarization beam splitter; polarization beam splitters; short period gratings; switching time; Bit error rate; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Loss measurement; Optical beam splitting; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical losses; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.853538

Filename

853538