All-optical Nyquist Filtering for elastic OTDM signals and their spectral defragmentation through parametric processes

Author

Hung Nguyen Tan ; Inoue, Takeru ; Tanizawa, Ken ; Kurosu, Takayuki ; Namiki, Shu

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 July 2014

Firstpage

126

Lastpage

127

Abstract

All-optical Nyquist filtering allows generation of coarse-granular, flexible, spectrally-efficient signals. This talk reviews important technologies for applications of Nyquist OTDM-WDM to elastic optical network including transmission, add/drop operations, spectral defragmentation.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical filters; optical information processing; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; Nyquist OTDM-WDM; add-drop operations; all-optical Nyquist filtering; coarse-granular flexible spectrally-efficient signal generation; elastic OTDM signals; elastic optical network; optical transmission; parametric processes; spectral defragmentation; time-division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; Bandwidth; Filtering; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing; elastic optical networks; optical filtering; optical time division multiplexing (OTDM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2766-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUM.2014.72

Filename

6903020