Reconfigurable Time Slot Interchange Based on Four-Wave Mixing and a Programmable Planar Lightwave Circuit

Author

Dizaji, Mohammad Rezagholipour ; Kostko, Irina A. ; Shia, Brian ; Callender, Claire L. ; Dumais, Patrick ; Jacob, Shebin ; Chen, Lawrence R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada

Volume

6

Issue

5

fYear

2014

fDate

Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

We demonstrate the all-optical reconfigurable time slot interchange (TSI) of individual bits at 40 Gb/s based on four-wave mixing (FWM) and a programmable planar lightwave circuit (PLC). The PLC is used to generate different control signals (masks) that determine which bits undergo TSI. By programming the PLC to generate two different masks, two different TSI patterns are obtained. TSI is achieved using FWM between the data signal and the desired mask with bidirectional propagation in a length of highly nonlinear fiber. Error-free operation is obtained for both of the TSI patterns, with a power penalty <; 5.2 dB, at a bit error rate of 10^-9.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical information processing; optical wavelength conversion; all-optical reconfigurable time slot interchange; bidirectional propagation; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; data signal; error-free operation; four-wave mixing; masks; programmable planar lightwave circuit; Band-pass filters; Bit error rate; Delays; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Optical buffering; Optical packet switching; Optical wavelength conversion; Time slot interchange (TSI); four wave mixing (FWM); planar lightwave circuits; wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2356509

Filename

6895127