• DocumentCode
    1059305
  • Title

    Optical buffer configuration based on a 3×3 collinear fibre coupler

  • Author

    Liu, A.M. ; Wu, C.Q. ; Lim, M.S. ; Gong, Y.D. ; Shum, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., China
  • Volume
    40
  • Issue
    16
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    1017
  • Lastpage
    1019
  • Abstract
    A novel optical buffer configuration based on a 3×3 collinear fibre coupler is presented. 100 Mbit/s and 2.5 Gbit/s data rate ´storage and erasure´ operation have been demonstrated and more than 1ms storage time achieved.
  • Keywords
    buffer storage; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre networks; packet switching; wavelength division multiplexing; 100 Mbit/s; 2.5 Gbit/s; WDM; collinear fibre coupler; data rate storage; optical buffer configuration; optical fibre amplifiers; packet switching;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20045145
  • Filename
    1322817