Photonic serial-parallel conversion of high-speed OTDM data

Author

Dennis, Michael L. ; Kaechele, Walter I. ; Burns, William K. ; Carruthers, T.F. ; Duling, Irl N., III

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

12

Issue

11

fYear

2000

Firstpage

1561

Lastpage

1563

Abstract

We demonstrate full demultiplexing of a single 100-Gb/s optical time-division multiplexed data stream into eight parallel 12.5-Gb/s streams. This is performed using a photonic serial-to-parallel converter based on lithium niobate intensity modulators, and requires no nonlinear optical elements. Error-free operation is obtained for each of the eight output channels.

Keywords

demultiplexing; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; time division multiplexing; 100 Gbit/s; 12.5 Gbit/s; error-free operation; full demultiplexing; high-speed OTDM data; lithium niobate intensity modulators; nonlinear optical elements; output channels; photonic serial-parallel conversion; photonic serial-to-parallel converter; single Gb/s optical time-division multiplexed data stream; Amplitude modulation; Demultiplexing; Electrooptic modulators; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Intensity modulation; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.887752

Filename

887752