8-fold 40-to-320-Gbit/s phase-coherent WDM-to-TDM multiplexing and 320-to-40-Gbit/s demultiplexing using highly nonlinear fibers

Author

Wu, Xiaoxia ; Bogoni, Antonella ; Yilmaz, Omer F. ; Nuccio, Scott R. ; Wang, Jian ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. - Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate 40-to-320-Gbit/s phase-coherent WDM-to-TDM multiplexing based on cross-phase modulation (XPM) and subsequent 320-to-40-Gbit/s demultiplexing using XPM-induced frequency shift in highly nonlinear fibers. An average penalty of approximately 7 dB at 10^-9 BER is observed after the nonlinear processes.

Keywords

multiplexing equipment; optical fibres; optical modulation; phase modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; XPM-induced frequency shift; bit rate 40 Gbit/s to 320 Gbit/s; cross-phase modulation; demultiplexing; nonlinear fibers; phase-coherent WDM-to-TDM multiplexing; Demultiplexing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465549