160 Gb/s Time-Domain Channel Extraction/Insertion and All-Optical Logic Operations Exploiting a Single PPLN Waveguide

Author

Bogoni, Antonella ; Wu, Xiaoxia ; Fazal, Irfan ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Integrated Res. Center for Photonic Networks & Technol., Consorzio Naz. Interuniversitario per le Telecomun. (CNIT), Pisa, Italy

Volume

27

Issue

19

fYear

2009

Firstpage

4221

Lastpage

4227

Abstract

160 Gb/s all-optical signal processing is demonstrated exploiting pump depletion in addition to sum and difference frequency generation (SFG/DFG) in a single periodically poled lithium-niobate (PPLN) waveguide. 160 Gb/s time-domain extraction and insertion operations of channels are obtained in an optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) system. Moreover, 160 Gb/s digital operations including half-adder, half-subtracter and AND/OR/XOR functions are carried out. The use of pump depletion effect allows to process ultrafast signals due to its high efficiency and ultrafast dynamics. 160 Gb/s bit error rate (BER) measurements confirm the effectiveness of all presented functionalities.

Keywords

error statistics; lithium compounds; optical fibre communication; optical frequency conversion; optical logic; optical waveguides; time division multiplexing; BER; DFG; LiNbO₃; OTDM; SFG; all-optical logic operations; all-optical signal processing; bit error rate; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; difference frequency generation; optical time division multiplexing; periodically poled lithium-niobate; pump depletion effect; single PPLN waveguide; sum frequency generation; time-domain channel extraction; time-domain channel insertion; Add/drop operation; photonic digital processing; ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2009.2022848

Filename

4915768