Experimental demonstration of data traffic grooming of a single 10-Gbit/s TDM tributary channel between two 160-Gbit/s WDM channels

Author

Wang, Jian ; Bakhtiari, Zahra ; Xiao-Li, Yinying ; Yilmaz, Omer F. ; Nuccio, Scott ; Wu, Xiaoxia ; Huang, Hao ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Yue, Yang ; Fazal, Irfan ; Hellwarth, Robert W. ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate tributary channel data grooming of high-speed signals using second-order nonlinearities in a PPLN waveguide. 16 TDM tributary channel data traffic grooming/exchange between two 160-Gbit/s WDM signals is shown with a penalty of ~4 dB.

Keywords

telecommunication traffic; time division multiplexing; waveguides; wavelength division multiplexing; PPLN waveguide; TDM tributary channel data traffic grooming; WDM channel signals; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; high-speed signals; periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide; second-order nonlinearity; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical network units; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Time division multiplexing; 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

5465576