Title :
Opto-electronic and all-optical wavelength translators and their cascadability
Author :
Mikkelsen, B. ; Raybon, G. ; Nielsen, T.N. ; Koren, U. ; Miller, B.I. ; Dreyer, K.
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate superior cascadability performance of bit-rate transparent all-optical interferometric wavelength translators compared to optoelectronic translators. For a translator bandwidth of /spl sim/2 times the bit rate, 9 optoelectronic and 75 all-optical translators can be cascaded.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Michelson interferometers; integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; semiconductor optical amplifiers; transparency; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; all-optical translators; bit rate; bit-rate transparent all-optical interferometric wavelength translators; cascadability; opto-electronic all-optical wavelength translators; translator bandwidth; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Driver circuits; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-582-X
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.1999.766021
