Transmission performance through cascaded 1-nm arrayed waveguide multiplexers at 10 Gb/s

Author

Nissov, Morten ; Pedersen, Rune J S ; Jorgensen, Bo Foged

Author_Institution

Center for Broadband Telecommun., Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

9

Issue

7

fYear

1997

fDate

7/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1038

Lastpage

1040

Abstract

The transmission properties of cascaded arrayed waveguide multiplexers are examined in a recirculating loop experiment. We show that a cascade of 40 multiplexers each with 3-dB bandwidth of /spl sim/1 nm can be passed penalty-free at 10 Gb/s. Furthermore, we show that the allowable fluctuation of the center frequency for a 10 Gb/s signal is reduced to 24 GHz at bit-error rate (BER)=10/sup -9/ for a concatenation of 40 multiplexers.

Keywords

fluctuations; multiplexing equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical waveguides; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Gb/s signal; allowable fluctuation; bit-error rate; cascaded 1-nm arrayed waveguide multiplexers; center frequency; multiplexer concatenation; penalty-free; recirculating loop experiment; transmission performance; transmission properties; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Fluctuations; Frequency; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical waveguides; Transfer functions; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.593392

Filename

593392