Title :
Migrating legacy PON equipment towards colorless ONU through hybrid integrated SOI all-optical λ-converter
Author :
Lazarou, I. ; Stamatiadis, Christos ; Schrenk, Bernhard ; Stampoulidis, L. ; Zimmermann, L. ; Voigt, K. ; Preve, Giovan B. ; Moerl, L. ; Kreissl, Jochen ; Avramopoulos, H.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abstract :
We present an ONU featuring a "colorless" DML enabled by a wavelength converter integrated on a 4μm silicon-on-insulator substrate. The photonic chip employs a hybrid integrated SOA and delay-interferometers and supports operation beyond 10Gb/s.
Keywords :
integrated optics; light interferometers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre LAN; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; silicon-on-insulator; wavelength division multiplexing; Si; colorless DML; colorless ONU; delay interferometers; hybrid integrated SOA; hybrid integrated SOI all optical wavelength converter; legacy PON equipment; optical network unit; passive optical network; photonic chip; silicon-on-insulator substrate; size 4 mum; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical network units; Optical wavelength conversion; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
