Title :
Optical comb-based versatile wavelength division multicasting add-drop node for efficient WDM networks
Author :
Sakaguchi, Jun ; Sakamoto, Takahide ; Kanno, Atsushi ; Awaji, Yoshinari ; Wada, Naoya ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate a robust and modulation-format-transparent multicasting wavelength converter based on a Mach-Zehnder optical comb generator. All the wavelength-converted channels show maximum 0.6 dB and 1.1 dB penalties for QPSK and 16QAM signals, respectively.
Keywords :
optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; 16QAM signal; Mach-Zehnder optical comb generator; QPSK; efficient WDM network; modulation-format-transparent multicasting wavelength converter; versatile wavelength division multicasting add-drop node; wavelength division multiplexing; wavelength-converted channel; Communications technology; Kalman filters; Optical filters;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
