Title :
Optical add/drop multiplexer based on 1-meter-long bismuth oxide-based highly-nonlinear fiber
Author :
Meloni, Gianluca ; Scaffardi, Mirco ; Ghelfi, P. ; Bogoni, Antonella ; Poti, Luca
Author_Institution :
CEIRC, Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
Channel extraction, clearing, and insertion have been obtained exploiting 1-meter-long bismuth oxide-based optical fiber with a nonlinear coefficient of 1250W1km-1. Penalties lower than 1.5dB in a 4×10Gbps OTDM system have been measured for all operations.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 1 m; 10 Gbit/s; 4 Gbit/s; OTDM system; bismuth oxide-based optical fiber; channel extraction; optical add/drop multiplexer;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1