BER evaluation/or 3×3 reconfigurable multiwavelength bidirectional optical cross-connect

Author

Shien-Kuei Liaw ; Pei-Shih Tsai ; Hoa Le Minh ; Ghassemlooy, Zabih ; Wen-Fang Wu

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2013

fDate

28-30 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

193

Lastpage

196

Abstract

The paper presents a power-compensated, 3×3 reconfigurable, multiwavelength and bidirectional optical cross-connect (RMB-OXC) for all-optical communications networks. RMB-OXC characteristics and its performance are experimentally verified in a bidirectional 8-channel × 10 Gb/s capacity system. We have observed only ~0.5 dB power penalty in the bidirectional transmission in comparison to the unidirectional transmission. The proposed RMB-OXC can be utilised in many applications in high-speed wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) networks.

Keywords

channel capacity; error statistics; optical crosstalk; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication network topology; wavelength division multiplexing; BER evaluation; RMB-OXC; WDM; all-optical communications networks; bidirectional transmission; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; power penalty; reconfigurable multiwavelength bidirectional optical crossconnect; unidirectional transmission; wavelength division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Fiber gratings; Optical fibers; Optical reflection; WDM; bidirectional transmissione; fiber Bragg grating; reconfigurable optical cross connect;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2013 IEEE 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6073-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2013.6687111

Filename

6687111