Wavelength-selective N/spl times/N optical cross-connect devices using strain-tunable fiber Bragg gratings

Author

Shien-Kuei Liaw ; Ching-Chung Yang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

15-19 July 2001

Abstract

Four 2/spl times/2 and one 3/spl times/3 reconfigurable OXC devices based on STFBGs are investigated and proposed. The STFBG-based OXCs with the features of dynamically wavelength-selective ability, compact, high signal-to-noise contrast ratio, uniform, low insertion loss and high-scalability may provide vast applications in the optical switching networks.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; photonic switching systems; wavelength division multiplexing; bit-error-rate measurement; dense wavelength division multiplexing; high signal-to-noise contrast ratio; high-scalability; low insertion loss; optical circulators; optical crossconnect devices; optical switching networks; photonic switching; reconfigurable devices; strain-tunable fiber Bragg gratings; wavelength-selective devices; Bragg gratings; Capacitive sensors; Circulators; Fiber gratings; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical losses; Switching systems; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Chiba, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6738-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.971148

Filename

971148