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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989077
