Investigation of combined wavelength and polarisation division multiplexing in C-band over 50 μm multimode fibre links up to 3 km

Author

Rochat, Etierirre ; Walker, Stuart D. ; Parker, Michael C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

533

Abstract

In this paper, we show how a combination of wavelength- and polarisation-multiplexing in C-band can enhance capacity in high data rate MMF-based access network applications. The transmission segment (single moded) consisted of two tunable C-band lasers. The polarisation-aligned output was passed to a 40-channel arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG). After amplification, the AWG output was set to circular-polarisation states and centre-launched into 50 μm MMF spans ranging from 300 m to 3 km.

Keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; laser tuning; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 300 m to 3 km; 4 to 8 GHz; 50 micron; MMF-based access network; channel arrayed-waveguide grating; circular-polarisation state; multimode fibre link; polarisation division multiplexing; transmission segment; tunable C-band laser; wavelength division multiplexing; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Demultiplexing; Intensity modulation; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; System performance; Tunable circuits and devices; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2003. CLEO/Europe. 2003 Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7734-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2003.1313595

Filename

1313595