Controllable optical demultiplexing using continuously tunable optical parametric delay at 160-Gbit/s with <0.1 ps resolution

Author

Wu, Xiaoxia ; Nuccio, Scott ; Yilmaz, Omer F. ; Wang, Jian ; Bogoni, Antonella ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

15-19 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the use of continuously tunable optical parametric delay at 160-Gbit/s based on conversion/dispersion for demultiplexing a 160-Gbit/s signal to 40-Gbit/s. A 15.2 ns delay with <0.1 ps resolution is shown, which introduces 3-6 dB power penalty.

Keywords

acousto-optical modulation; demultiplexing; optical delay lines; optical dispersion; optical pumping; optical tuning; acousto-optic modulators; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; continuously tunable optical parametric delay; conversion; delay line; dispersion; optical demultiplexing; power penalty; pump laser; time 15.2 ns; Delay; Demultiplexing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical control; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Ultrafast optics; Fiber optics communications; parametric optical delay; ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2009. PS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3857-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3856-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2009.5307856

Filename

5307856