• DocumentCode
    378276
  • Title

    First demonstration of simultaneous demultiplexing from 80 Gb/s to 2×40 Gb/s by SOA-based all-optical polarization switch

  • Author

    Tsurusawa, Munefumi ; Nishimura, Kohsuke ; Usami, Masashi

  • Author_Institution
    KDD R&D Labs. Inc., Saitama, Japan
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    500
  • Abstract
    We have demonstrated a simultaneous demultiplexing from 80 Gb/s into two channels of 40 Gb/s using a SOA-based all-optical polarization switch for the first time. The advantage of 7 dB in the power budget was confirmed against the conventional demultiplexing scheme.
  • Keywords
    demultiplexing equipment; light interferometers; nonlinear optics; optical fibre polarisation; photonic switching systems; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 40 Gbit/s; 80 Gbit/s; OTDM; SOA-based all-optical polarization switch; UNI; WDM; demultiplexing; optical time division multiplexing; power budget; ultrafast nonlinear interferometer; wavelength division multiplexing; Demultiplexing; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical receivers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6705-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2001.989077
  • Filename
    989077