All-optical demultiplexing using fiber cross-phase modulation (XPM) and optical filtering

Author

Olsson, Bengt Erik ; Blumenthal, Daniel J.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

13

Issue

8

fYear

2001

Firstpage

875

Lastpage

877

Abstract

All-optical demultiplexing of 80-Gb/s data to 10 Gb/s is demonstrated using spectral broadening-induced by cross-phase modulation (XPM) with subsequent optical band-pass filtering. Due to the time derivative effect of XPM, the control pulsewidth can be larger than the bit-slot of the incoming data, and still give a switch window suitable for demultiplexing. Operation at 10/sup -12/ bit-error rate is demonstrated. In principle, this approach will scale to extremely high bit rates due to the ultrafast fiber nonlinearities.

Keywords

band-pass filters; demultiplexing; high-speed optical techniques; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical filters; optical modulation; phase modulation; 10 Gbit/s; 80 Gbit/s; all-optical demultiplexing; bit-error rate; control pulsewidth; cross-phase modulation; demultiplexing; fiber cross-phase modulation; optical band-pass filtering; optical filtering; spectral broadening-induced; switch window; ultrafast fiber nonlinearities; Band pass filters; Demultiplexing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Filtering; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.935833

Filename

935833