Title :
Control Scheme for Optimizing the Optical Phase Bias in the Symmetric-Mach-Zehnder All-Optical Switch
Author :
Ueno, Y. ; Takahashi, M. ; Nakamura, S. ; Suzuki, K. ; Shimizu, T. ; Furukawa, A. ; Mori, K. ; Ae, S. ; Sasaki, T. ; Tajima, K.
Author_Institution :
Networking Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Ibaraki
Abstract :
Control scheme for optimizing the interferometer´s phase bias of the ultrafast symmetric-Mach-Zehnder all-optical switch is proposed and demonstrated with our 16:1 demultiplexing of 168-Gb/s pseudorandom signals. Its output error signal is not unipolar but bipolar
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; demultiplexing; optical control; optical fibre communication; optical switches; random sequences; 168 Gbit/s; Mach-Zehnder all-optical switch; demultiplexing; optical phase bias; pseudorandom signals;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
87-90974-63-8
