Field demonstration of all optical in-line wavelength conversion in a WDM 40 Gbit/s dispersion managed link using a polarization insensitive Ti:PPLN converter

Author

Schiffini, A. ; Paoletti, A. ; Caccioli, D. ; Minzioni, P. ; Cascelli, S. ; Guglielmucci, M. ; Matera, Francesco ; Tosi-Beleffi, G. ; Suche, Hubertus ; Lee, Youngjoo ; Quiring, Viktor ; Sohler, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Pirelli Labs, Milan, Italy

fYear

2003

fDate

23-28 March 2003

Firstpage

291

Abstract

All optical in line wavelength conversion and rerouting is demonstrated in a 5×100 km WDM field trial using a polarization insensitive Ti:PPLN converter. No penalty with respect to the 40 Gbit/s unconverted channels is reported.

Keywords

lithium compounds; niobium compounds; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical wavelength conversion; titanium; wavelength division multiplexing; 40 Gbit/s; 500 km; LiNbO₃:Ti; WDM dispersion managed link; WDM field trial; all optical in-line wavelength conversion field demonstration; polarization insensitive Ti:periodically poled LiNbO₃ converter; unconverted channel; wavelength rerouting; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical wavelength conversion; Wavelength converters; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003

Print_ISBN

1-55752-746-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2003.1247665

Filename

1247665