All-optical time-slot-interchange and wavelength conversion using difference-frequency-generation and FBGs

Author

Cardakli, M.C. ; Gurkan, D. ; Havstad, S.A. ; Willner, A.E. ; Parameswaran, K.R. ; Fejer, M.M. ; Brenner, I.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

4

fYear

2000

fDate

7-10 March 2000

Firstpage

196

Abstract

We demonstrate simultaneous all optical time-slot-interchange and wavelength conversion of a 2.5 Gb/s bit stream. We used different frequency generation (DFG) as a wavelength converter and fibre Bragg gratings (FBG)s as optical buffers. This technique is reconfigurable, scalable and employs high-extinction-ratio DFG-based time-slot-switching.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; optical fibre communication; optical wavelength conversion; wavelength division multiplexing; DFG-based time-slot-switching; Gb/s bit stream; all-optical time-slot-interchange; difference-frequency-generation; frequency generation; high-extinction-ratio; optical buffers; optical time-slot-interchange; wavelength conversion; Extinction ratio; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Optical buffering; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2000

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-630-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2000.869455

Filename

869455