Fiber Bragg grating-based rearrangeable nonblocking optical cross connects using multiport optical circulators

Author

Wu, Xiangnong ; Shen, Yunfeng ; Lu, Chao ; Cheng, T.H. ; Rao, M.K.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

Volume

12

Issue

6

fYear

2000

fDate

6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

696

Lastpage

698

Abstract

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based rearrangeable nonblocking optical cross connects (OXC´s) using multiport optical circulators are proposed in this letter. The use of multiport optical circulators instead of three-port circulators can be more efficient for large optical cross connects systems. Performance evaluations of proposed large dimension optical cross connects are investigated.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; optical circulators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical interconnections; performance evaluation; reconfigurable architectures; wavelength division multiplexing; fiber Bragg grating-based rearrangeable nonblocking optical cross connects; large dimension optical cross connects; large optical cross connects systems; multiport optical circulators; performance evaluations; three-port circulators; Bragg gratings; Chaotic communication; Circulators; Fiber gratings; Insertion loss; Optical devices; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Piezoelectric transducers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.849088

Filename

849088