An optical FDM-add/drop multiplexing ring network utilizing fiber Fabry-Perot filters and optical circulators

Author

Oda, Kazuhiro ; Toba, Hiromu

Author_Institution

NTT Transmission Syst. Lab., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

5

Issue

7

fYear

1993

fDate

7/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

825

Lastpage

828

Abstract

An optical ring network based on optical frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and add/drop multiplexers (ADMs) that use fiber Fabry-Perot (FFP) filters and optical circulators is proposed for a logical star network. In order to verify the feasibility of the ring network, 100-GHz-spaced, three-channel intensity-modulated direct detection (IM-DD) transmission is demonstrated at a bit rate of 622 Mb/s. Taking interchannel crosstalk into account, the maximum number of nodes is estimated to be 30 if the FFP filters have a finesse of 100.<>

Keywords

crosstalk; frequency division multiplexing; multiplexing equipment; optical filters; optical links; optical modulation; optical resonators; 622 Mbit/s; add/drop multiplexers; direct detection; fiber Fabry-Perot filters; intensity-modulated; inter-office communications; interchannel crosstalk; logical star network; maximum node number; multiplexing ring network; optical circulators; optical fibres; optical frequency division multiplexing; optical links; optical ring network; three-channel; Add-drop multiplexers; Circulators; Fabry-Perot; Frequency division multiplexing; OFDM; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber filters; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.229820

Filename

229820