High-speed all-optical signal processing in optical communication systems

Author

Weber, H.G. ; Ludwig, R. ; Feiste, U. ; Schmidt, C. ; Schubert, C. ; Berger, J. ; Hilliger, E. ; Kroh, M. ; Yamamoto, T.

Author_Institution

Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. fur Nachrichtentech. Berlin GmbH, Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Abstract

Summary form only given. The transmission capacity of the fiber is expanded by increasing both the number of wavelength channels (wavelength-division multiplexing, WDM) and the bit rate per WDM-channel (time-division multiplexing, TDM). A channel bit rate of 40 Gbit/s will soon be installed and the next generation TDM bit rate of 160 Gbit/s is under active study in several research laboratories. As electrical signal processing is not available at 160 Gbit/s today, the TDM bit rate of 160 Gbit/s requires the optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) technique. In this paper, we report on components and techniques enabling 160 Gbit/s OTDM transmission. We focus on semiconductor based devices.

Keywords

demultiplexing equipment; electro-optical modulation; high-speed optical techniques; multiplexing equipment; multiwave mixing; optical fibre communication; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; 160 Gbit/s; 160 Gbit/s OTDM transmission; channel bit rate; cross-phase modulation; delay line multiplexer; electro-absorption modulator; fiber transmission capacity; four wave mixing; high-speed all-optical signal processing; optical communication systems; optical demultiplexer; optical sampling; optical time division multiplexing; pulse sources; semiconductor based devices; semiconductor optical amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical pulse compression; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034384

Filename

1034384