Title :
Programmable optical buffering using fiber Bragg gratings combined with a widely-tunable wavelength converter
Author :
Chen, Chin-Hui ; Johansson, Leif A. ; Lal, Vikrant ; Masanovic, Milan L. ; Blumenthal, D.J. ; Coldren, Larry A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
A 40 Gbps RZ all-optical buffering method, implemented by FBG and tunable wavelength converter, is presented. Preliminary results of time-delay up to 7 μs and pulse broadening were measured. System measurements at 10 Gbps show the desired delay programmability.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; buffer storage; optical frequency conversion; packet switching; photonic switching systems; 10 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; 7 mus; FBG; RZ all-optical buffering; all-optical packet-switched networks; delay programmability; fiber Bragg gratings; programmable all-optical buffering; pulse broadening; widely-tunable wavelength converter; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Optical buffering; Optical packet switching; Optical pulses; Optical wavelength conversion; Propagation delay; Pulse measurements; Reflectivity; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-783-0
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2005.192764
