Power-compensated 3×3 reconfigurable bidirectional multiwavelength cross-connect device based on strain tunable fiber Bragg gratings

Author

Liaw, Shien-Kuei ; Tsai, Pei-Shih ; Hsu, Kuang-Yu ; Tverjanovich, Andrey

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2011

fDate

20-22 July 2011

Firstpage

103

Lastpage

106

Abstract

A power-compensated, 3×3 reconfigurable bidirectional multiwavelength optical cross-connect (B-MOXC) device for dense wavelength division multiplexing networks is proposed using strain-tunable fiber Bragg gratings and optical circulators. The B-MOXC characteristics are verified by measuring inter-channel and intra-channel crosstalks, as well as signal-to-noise-ratio. The signals are reconfigurable by control of the fiber Bragg gratings. The selective B-MOXC device could provide more reconfigurability, flexibility and survivability in WDM networks.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; optical crosstalk; optical fibres; wavelength division multiplexing; B-MOXC characteristics; WDM networks; dense wavelength division multiplexing networks; inter-channel crosstalks; intra-channel crosstalks; optical circulators; power-compensated optical cross-connect device; reconfigurability; reconfigurable bidirectional multiwavelength optical cross-connect device; selective B-MOXC device; signal-to-noise-ratio; strain tunable fiber Bragg gratings; strain-tunable fiber Bragg gratings; Crosstalk; Fiber gratings; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Optical Communications (NOC), 2011 16th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-753-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-86135-373-3

Type

conf

Filename

5996243