320-Gbit/s optical time multiplexing of two 160-Gbit/s channels using supercontinuum generation to achieve high-speed WDM-to-TDM

Author

Wu, Xiaoxia ; Bogoni, Antonella ; Nuccio, Scott R. ; Yilmaz, Omer F. ; Willner, Alan E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate multiplexing of two 160-Gbit/s WDM signals to one 320-Gbit/s signal based on supercontinuum generation in a highly nonlinear fiber. Error free operation was achieved after demultiplexing the 320-Gbit/s signal to 10-Gbit/s and less than 3 dB penalty was observed.

Keywords

demultiplexing; error statistics; high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre communication; supercontinuum generation; telecommunication channels; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; bit error rate measurement; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit rate 320 Gbit/s; data channel bit rates; demultiplexing; error free operation; high-speed WDM-to-TDM; highly nonlinear fiber; optical time multiplexing; supercontinuum generation; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Supercontinuum generation; Wavelength division multiplexing; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (190.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225856