All-Optical Multicast Switch Employing Raman-Assisted FWM in Dispersion-Shifted Fiber

Author

Lau, Kwan ; Wang, S.H. ; Xu, Lixin ; Lu, C. ; Tam, H.Y. ; Wai, P.K.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Kowloon

Volume

20

Issue

20

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1730

Lastpage

1732

Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical multicast switch with the capability to select five reconfigurable channel groups with six output multicast channels using three control wavelengths at 10 Gb/s using Raman-assisted four-wave mixing in dispersion-shifted fiber. All the output channels comply with the 100 GHz (i.e., 0.8 nm) spaced International Telecommunication Union (ITU) grid.

Keywords

multicast communication; multiwave mixing; optical communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical switches; International Telecommunication Union; Raman-assisted FWM; Raman-assisted four-wave mixing; all-optical multicast switch; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; control wavelengths; dispersion-shifted fiber; frequency 100 GHz; reconfigurable channel selection; wavelength 0.8 nm; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; IP networks; Multicast protocols; Nonlinear optics; Optical control; Optical fiber communication; Optical mixing; Optical switches; Routing protocols; All-optical devices; nonlinear optics; optical communication; optical multicast;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.2004565

Filename

4633710