Simultaneous OTDM demultiplexing and detection using an electroabsorptioa modulator

Author

Kaman, Volkan ; Keating, Adrian J. ; Zhang, Sheng Z. ; Bowers, John E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

12

Issue

6

fYear

2000

fDate

6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

711

Lastpage

713

Abstract

A traveling-wave electroabsorption modulator is used to simultaneously demultiplex and electrically detect a single 10-Gb/s channel from a 20-Gb/s optical time-division multiplexed data stream while transmitting the other channel in an optically transparent manner. A bit-error-rate penalty of 0.5 dB and an error floor were observed for the dropped channel due to residual absorption of the other channel. Error-free operation was achieved for the transparent channel.

Keywords

demultiplexing; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; optical communication equipment; optical signal detection; photodetectors; telecommunication channels; time division multiplexing; transparency; 10 Gbit/s; 20 Gbit/s; OTDM demultiplexing; OTDM detection; bit-error-rate penalty; demultiplex; dropped channel; electrically detect; electroabsorption modulator; error floor; error-free operation; optical time-division multiplexed data stream; optically transparent manner; residual absorption; single Gb/s channel; transparent channel; traveling-wave electroabsorption modulator; Demultiplexing; Extinction ratio; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Photodetectors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.849093

Filename

849093