Title :
Multichannel acousto-optic cells for fast optical crossconnect
Author :
Aubin, G. ; Sapriel, J. ; Molchanov, V.Ya. ; Gabet, R. ; Grosso, P. ; Gosselin, S. ; Jaouen, Y.
Author_Institution :
LPN/CNRS, Route De Nozay Marcoussis, France
fDate :
4/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The performance of an acousto-optic based 8-to-8 vector-matrix switch is reported. The feasibility of cascading multichannel acousto-optic cells is experimentally investigated for the first time. Characterisation is carried out from fibre to fibre with BER measurement at 10 Gbit/s and exhibits no crosstalk effects within WDM C-bandwidth, low polarisation sensitivity and fast switching.
Keywords :
acousto-optical switches; error statistics; optical crosstalk; photonic switching systems; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 8 to 8 vector matrix switch; BER measurement; WDM C-bandwidth; bit error rate; crosstalk effects; low polarisation sensitivity; multichannel acousto optic cells; optical crossconnect; wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20040280
