Simultaneous TDM/FDM digital optical transmission with polarization-diversity heterodyne detection

Author

Stevens, M.L. ; Hemenway, B.R. ; Alexander, S.B.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

23-27 May 1994

Firstpage

171

Abstract

A rapidly-tunable optical transmitter and a rapidly-tunable heterodyne receiver are used to demonstrate simultaneous time-division-multiplexed and frequency-division-multiplexed (TDM/FDM) digital communication at 1.244 Gbps over a single optical fiber with a channel switching time under 62.5 nsec and a channel dwell time of 1.953 /spl mu/sec. An IF bandwidth spanning 6-18 GHz is used with post-detection filtering.<>

Keywords

digital communication systems; frequency division multiplexing; optical communication equipment; optical fibres; optical receivers; time division multiplexing; 1.244 Gbit/s; 1.953 mus; 6 to 18 GHz; 62.6 ns; IF bandwidth; TDM/FDM digital optical transmission; channel dwell time; channel switching time; polarization-diversity heterodyne detection; post-detection filtering; rapidly-tunable heterodyne receiver; rapidly-tunable optical transmitter; single optical fiber; Bandwidth; Communication switching; Digital communication; Frequency; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Time division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1994., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1778-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1994.335339

Filename

335339