Experimental Implementation of an All-Optical Interferometric Drop, Add, and Extract Multiplexer for Superchannels

Author

Fabbri, Simon J. ; Sygletos, Stylianos ; Perentos, Andreas ; Pincemin, Erwan ; Sugden, Kate ; Ellis, Andrew D.

Author_Institution

Phys. Dept., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland

Volume

33

Issue

7

fYear

2015

fDate

April1, 1 2015

Firstpage

1351

Lastpage

1357

Abstract

We present the experimental implementation of an all-optical ROADM scheme for routing of an individual subchannel within an all-optical OFDM superchannel. The different functions required of optical node were demonstrated using interferometric technique with the extraction, drop, and addition of individual subchannel in a ten subchannels optically aggregated signal. The scheme we reported enables a fully flexible node compatible with future terabit per second superchannel transmission.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; adders; light interferometry; multiplexing equipment; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; all-optical OFDM superchannel transmission; all-optical ROADM scheme; optical subchannel; reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer; Optical crosstalk; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters; All-optical node; all-optical OFDM; all-optical node; flexible optical networks; interferometer; optical communication; subcarrier multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2015.2390292

Filename

7005401