160-Gb/s polarization insensitive all-optical demultiplexing using a gain-transparent ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (GT-UNI)

Author

Schubert, C. ; Berger, J. ; Feiste, U. ; Ludwig, R. ; Schmidt, C. ; Weber, H.G.

Author_Institution

Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. fur Nachrichtentech. Berlin GmbH, Germany

Volume

13

Issue

11

fYear

2001

Firstpage

1200

Lastpage

1202

Abstract

We report on a polarization-insensitive all-optical demultiplexer based on gain-transparent operation of a semiconductor optical amplifier in an ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (GT-UNI) using polarization diversity. Error-free demultiplexing from 160 to 10 Gb/s is demonstrated.

Keywords

demultiplexing equipment; high-speed optical techniques; light interferometers; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; sensitivity; 160 to 10 Gbit/s; Gb/s polarization insensitive all-optical demultiplexing; error-free demultiplexing; gain-transparent operation; gain-transparent ultrafast nonlinear interferometer; polarization diversity; polarization-insensitive all-optical demultiplexer; semiconductor optical amplifier; ultrafast nonlinear interferometer; Delay; Demultiplexing; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Optical refraction; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Radiative recombination; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.959363

Filename

959363