Title :
49.6 Gb/s electrooptic demultiplexing using cascaded on/off gates
Author_Institution :
NTT Transmission Syst. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan
fDate :
6/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An electrooptic on/off gate-based demultiplexing scheme for high-bit-rate optical transmission systems is reported. The electrooptic demultiplexing of a time-division multiplexed 49.6-Gb/s data stream using cascaded Ti:LiNbO/sub 3/ Mech-Zehnder (MZ) intensity modulators is shown.<>
Keywords :
electro-optical devices; lithium compounds; multiplexing equipment; optical bistability; optical modulation; time division multiplexing; titanium; 49.6 Gbit/s; LiNbO/sub 3/:Ti; TDM; cascaded on/off gates; electrooptic demultiplexing; electrooptic on/off gate-based demultiplexing scheme; high-bit-rate optical transmission systems; integrated optics; optical switches Mach-Zehnder intensity optical modulators; time-division multiplexed; Bit rate; Demultiplexing; Electrooptic modulators; Intensity modulation; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical solitons; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
