Title :
BER evaluation/or 3×3 reconfigurable multiwavelength bidirectional optical cross-connect
Author :
Shien-Kuei Liaw ; Pei-Shih Tsai ; Hoa Le Minh ; Ghassemlooy, Zabih ; Wen-Fang Wu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan
Abstract :
The paper presents a power-compensated, 3×3 reconfigurable, multiwavelength and bidirectional optical cross-connect (RMB-OXC) for all-optical communications networks. RMB-OXC characteristics and its performance are experimentally verified in a bidirectional 8-channel × 10 Gb/s capacity system. We have observed only ~0.5 dB power penalty in the bidirectional transmission in comparison to the unidirectional transmission. The proposed RMB-OXC can be utilised in many applications in high-speed wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) networks.
Keywords :
channel capacity; error statistics; optical crosstalk; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication network topology; wavelength division multiplexing; BER evaluation; RMB-OXC; WDM; all-optical communications networks; bidirectional transmission; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; power penalty; reconfigurable multiwavelength bidirectional optical crossconnect; unidirectional transmission; wavelength division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Fiber gratings; Optical fibers; Optical reflection; WDM; bidirectional transmissione; fiber Bragg grating; reconfigurable optical cross connect;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics (ICP), 2013 IEEE 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6073-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICP.2013.6687111
