Ultrafast all-optical ADD-DROP multiplexer based on 1-m-long bismuth oxide-based highly nonlinear fiber

Author

Meloni, Gianluca ; Scaffardi, Mirco ; Ghelfi, Paolo ; Bogoni, Antonella ; Potì, Luca ; Calabretta, Nicola

Author_Institution

CEIRC-Cuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy

Volume

17

Issue

12

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2661

Lastpage

2663

Abstract

An all-optical ADD- DROP multiplexer able to carry out ultrafast channel extraction, clearing, and insertion operations for time-interleaved optical signals is presented. The proposed ADD-DROP multiplexer exploits polarization rotation induced by cross-phase modulation in 1-m-long highly nonlinear bismuth oxide-based optical fiber with a nonlinear coefficient of 1250 W^-1 · km^-1. Penalties lower than 1.5 dB in a 4 × 10 Gb/s optical-time-division-multiplexed system have been measured for all operations.

Keywords

bismuth compounds; high-speed optical techniques; multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical modulation; phase modulation; telecommunication channels; time division multiplexing; 1 m; 10 Gbit/s; B₂O₃; all-optical add-drop multiplexer; bismuth oxide-based highly nonlinear fiber; channel extraction; clearing; cross-phase modulation; nonlinear coefficient; optical-time-division-multiplexed system; polarization rotation; time-interleaved optical signals; Bismuth; Fiber nonlinear optics; Multiplexing; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Ultrafast optics; Optical communication; optical Kerr effect; optical fiber devices; signal processing; ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.859493

Filename

1542182