Title :
Demonstration of Modulation Format Free and Bit Rate Free Characteristics of 2 ns Optical Switch for Optical Routers
Author :
Ikezawa, Katsuya ; Iio, S. ; Suehiro, Masayuki ; Suzuki, Takumi ; Uneme, Shigeo
Author_Institution :
Yokogawa Electr. Corp., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrated modulation format free and bit rate free characteristics of our high-speed optical switches with 43 Gbps DQPSK, DPSK and 160 Gbps RZ signals. BERs versus OSNR were achieved without penalty for the DQPSK and DPSK.
Keywords :
error statistics; high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical noise; optical switches; quadrature phase shift keying; DPSK; DQPSK; RZ signals; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit rate 43 Gbit/s; optical routers; optical switch; time 2 ns; Bit rate; High speed optical techniques; Optical devices; Optical modulation; Optical reflection; Optical refraction; Optical switches; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Refractive index;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-856-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2008.4528184
