All-optical 80-Gb/s add-drop multiplexer using fiber-based nonlinear optical loop mirror

Author

Lee, Ju Han ; Tanemura, Takuo ; Takushima, Yuichi ; Kikuchi, Kazuo

Author_Institution

Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Volume

17

Issue

4

fYear

2005

fDate

4/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

840

Lastpage

842

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a novel scheme of the all-optical, high-speed add-drop multiplexer (ADM) for the optical time-division multiplexed signal. The ADM employs a single nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) composed of an optical fiber. The key technical point of this scheme is the simultaneous use of the reflection mode (add function) and the transmission mode (drop function) of the NOLM, which results in significant simplification of the overall ADM configuration. Experimental results show that simultaneous add-drop operation at 80 Gb/s can be successfully achieved without bit errors.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; mirrors; multiplexing equipment; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; time division multiplexing; 80 Gbit/s; all-optical add-drop multiplexer; fiber-based nonlinear optical loop mirror; optical time-division multiplexed signal; reflection mode; transmission mode; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Mirrors; Multiplexing; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Optical communication; nonlinear optics; optical fiber devices; optical signal processing; optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.844011

Filename

1411894