Noise tolerance in wavelength-selective switching of optical DQPSK pulse train by collinear acoustooptic devices

Author

Goto, Nasato ; Miyazaki, Yuji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Opt. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

21-25 July 2013

Firstpage

224

Lastpage

227

Abstract

Optical switching of high-bit-rate QPSK pulse trains using collinear acoustooptic (AO) devices is theoretically discussed. Since the collinear AO devices have wavelength selectivity, the switched optical pulse trains suffer from distortion when the bandwidth of the pulse train is comparable to the pass bandwidth of the AO device. As the AO device, a sidelobe-suppressed device with a tapered surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) waveguide and a Butterworth-type filter device with a lossy SAW directional coupler are considered. Phase distortion of optical pulse trains at 40 to 100 G symbol/s in quadrature phase-shift-keying format is numerically analyzed.

Keywords

Butterworth filters; acousto-optical devices; directional couplers; optical switches; quadrature phase shift keying; surface acoustic wave waveguides; Butterworth-type filter device; SAW; collinear acoustooptic devices; directional coupler; optical DQPSK pulse train; optical switching; quadrature phase-shift-keying; sidelobe-suppressed device; surface-acoustic-wave waveguide; wavelength-selective switching; Adaptive optics; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical pulse shaping; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Surface acoustic waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Prague

ISSN

1948-5719

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5684-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2013.0058

Filename

6724782