TDM-to-WDM conversion from 130 Gbit/s to 3 × 43 Gbit/s using XPM in a NOLM switch

Author

Vorreau, Philipp ; Parmigiani, Francesca ; Mukasa, Kazunori ; Ibsen, Morten ; Petropoulos, Periklis ; Richardson, David J. ; Ellis, Andrew ; Freude, Wolfgang ; Leuthold, Juerg

Author_Institution

Inst. of High-Freq. & Quantum Electron., Univ. of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

22-26 June 2008

Firstpage

207

Lastpage

210

Abstract

We report the first demonstration of OTDM-to-WDM conversion from 130 Gbit/s simultaneously to 3 times 43 Gbit/s WDM channels in a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM). The scheme is exploiting the ultra-fast Kerr based XPM in a NOLM and gives full flexibility for selecting the output WDM channel wavelengths. For the success of the experiment we rely crucially on a new specially designed highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) exhibiting low dispersion and low dispersion slope such that low walk-off operation across the C-band is possible. Error free performance is achieved with penalties ranging from 0.5 dB to 3.5 dB for all three WDM channels.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical wavelength conversion; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; NOLM switch; TDM-to-WDM conversion; XPM; highly nonlinear fiber; nonlinear optical loop mirror; ultra-fast Kerr; Bit rate; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Switches; Wavelength division multiplexing; OTDM; WDM; cross-phase modulation; nonlinear optical loop mirror; time division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2625-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2626-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598634

Filename

4598634