Erasable fiber loop optical buffer

Author

Hong, Xiaobin ; Chen, Yue ; Lin, Jintong

Author_Institution

Opt. Commun. Center, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., China

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

18-22 Oct. 1999

Firstpage

1406

Abstract

Optical buffers are important components of an optical switch in a high-speed optical network. We propose a model of a fiber loop buffer, which incorporates a semiconductor laser amplifier (SLA) as a nonlinear element controlled by an optical control signal. The impact of the accumulated and amplified spontaneous emission noise of the SLA and the data pattern dependent gain saturation effect in the SLA on the properties of the buffer is taken into account to give the optimum operation conditions theoretically.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; spontaneous emission; superradiance; wavelength division multiplexing; accumulated spontaneous emission noise; amplified spontaneous emission noise; data pattern dependent gain saturation effect; erasable fiber loop optical buffer; fiber loop buffer; high-speed optical network; nonlinear element; optical buffers; optical control signal; optical switch; optimum operation conditions; semiconductor laser amplifier; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Laser noise; Optical buffering; Optical control; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical switches; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

7-5635-0402-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.1999.820535

Filename

820535