Title :
Demonstration of 40 Gbit/s optical packet synchronisation using fibre Bragg gratings and fast-tunable wavelength converters
Author :
Chen, C.-H. ; Wolfson, D. ; Johansson, L.A. ; Blumenthal, D.J. ; Coldren, L.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
fDate :
3/16/2006 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A method of all-optical synchronisation is proposed and demonstrated at 40 Gbit/s. Based on pre-programmable fibre Bragg grating array and fast-switched widely-tunable wavelength converters, negligible power penalty is achieved up to 1 μs delay as well as 100% layer 2 throughput.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; optical fibres; optical wavelength conversion; synchronisation; 40 Gbit/s; all-optical synchronisation; fast-tunable wavelength converters; optical packet synchronisation; pre programmable fibre Bragg grating array;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20060132
