Reconfigurable multichannel optical add-drop multiplexers incorporating eight-port optical circulators and fiber Bragg gratings

Author

Tran, An Vu ; De Zhong, Wen ; Tucker, Rodney S. ; Song, Kai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Vic., Australia

Volume

13

Issue

10

fYear

2001

Firstpage

1100

Lastpage

1102

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate two new strictly nonblocking reconfigurable multichannel optical add-drop multiplexers (RM-OADMs) using optical circulators and fiber Bragg gratings. By effectively using eight-port optical circulators, the new structures significantly reduce component count and insertion loss, and achieve good crosstalk performance. One of the new RM-OADMs potentially achieves the lowest insertion loss among existing RM-OADMs.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; multiplexing equipment; optical circulators; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; reconfigurable architectures; telecommunication channels; component count; eight-port optical circulators; fiber Bragg gratings; good crosstalk performance; insertion loss; lowest insertion loss; optical circulators; reconfigurable multichannel optical add-drop multiplexers; strictly nonblocking reconfigurable multichannel optical add-drop multiplexers; Bragg gratings; Circulators; Fiber gratings; Insertion loss; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical crosstalk; Optical devices; Optical losses; Photonics; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.950748

Filename

950748