DocumentCode
712327
Title
Optical comb-based versatile wavelength division multicasting add-drop node for efficient WDM networks
Author
Sakaguchi, Jun ; Sakamoto, Takahide ; Kanno, Atsushi ; Awaji, Yoshinari ; Wada, Naoya ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya
Author_Institution
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
fYear
2015
fDate
22-26 March 2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We demonstrate a robust and modulation-format-transparent multicasting wavelength converter based on a Mach-Zehnder optical comb generator. All the wavelength-converted channels show maximum 0.6 dB and 1.1 dB penalties for QPSK and 16QAM signals, respectively.
Keywords
optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; 16QAM signal; Mach-Zehnder optical comb generator; QPSK; efficient WDM network; modulation-format-transparent multicasting wavelength converter; versatile wavelength division multicasting add-drop node; wavelength division multiplexing; wavelength-converted channel; Communications technology; Kalman filters; Optical filters;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015
Conference_Location
Los Angeles, CA
Type
conf
Filename
7121671
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