Title :
Fine-grain optical TDMA channel selection using an electroabsorption modulator and impulse generator
Author :
Gunning, P. ; Lucek, J.K. ; Moodie, D.G. ; Smith, K. ; Pitcher, D. ; Siddiqui, A.S.
Author_Institution :
BT Labs., BT&D Technol. Ltd., Ipswich, UK
fDate :
1/16/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Short electrical pulses from an impulse generator derived from a distributed optical clock were used to drive an electroabsorption modulator to select a 2.5 Gbit/s data channel from a 40 Gbit/s optical TDMA data stream
Keywords :
digital communication; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; optical fibre LAN; time division multiple access; 2.5 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; Gbit/s optical TDMA data stream; LAN application; data channel; distributed optical clock; electroabsorption modulator; fine-grain optical TDMA channel selection; impulse generator; short electrical pulses;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19970107
