High speed all-optical time division demultiplexer

Author

Piccirilli, A.B. ; Presby, H.M. ; Basavanhally, N. ; Mikkelsen, B. ; Raybon, G. ; Koren, U.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

698

Abstract

We have demonstrated high-speed optical TDM demultiplexing using a semiconductor optical amplifier based on Mach-Zehnder and Michelson interferometers. Demultiplexing of 40 Gb/sec and 80 Gb/sec data streams down to their 100 b/sec tributaries has been achieved error free. 160 Gb/sec demultiplexing should be achievable with further improvements in the device design

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Michelson interferometers; demultiplexing equipment; high-speed optical techniques; optical receivers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 160 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; 80 Gbit/s; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Michelson interferometer; TDM demultiplexing; data streams; device design; high speed all-optical time division demultiplexer; semiconductor optical amplifier; Clocks; High speed optical techniques; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference Proceedings, 1999. MILCOM 1999. IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5538-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1999.822774

Filename

822774