High-Speed Optical WDM-to-TDM Conversion Using Fiber Nonlinearities

Author

Wu, Xiaoxia ; Bogoni, Antonella ; Nuccio, Scott R. ; Yilmaz, Omer Faruk ; Scaffardi, Mirco ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

16

Issue

5

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1441

Lastpage

1447

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate several high-speed wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) to time division multiplexing (TDM) conversion schemes by using different nonlinearities in highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF). 40-160-Gb/s WDM-to-TDM conversion using cross-phase modulation (XPM) and 160-320-Gb/s conversion based on supercontinuum generation are shown. Furthermore, we investigate a different kind of HNLF, and demonstrate 40-80-Gb/s WDM-to-TDM conversion using XPM in a 0.8-m bismuth oxide HNLF (Bi-HNLF). Less than 3-dB power penalty is obtained for each case.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; optical modulation; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; Bi-HNLF; XPM; bismuth oxide highly-nonlinear fiber; bit rate 40 Gbit/s to 320 Gbit/s; crossphase modulation; high-speed optical WDM-to-TDM conversion; supercontinuum generation; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Supercontinuum generation; Time division multiplexing; Ultrafast optics; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing; Optical fiber communication; time division multiplexing (TDM); ultrafast nonlinear processes; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2037025

Filename

5398838