A high-speed demultiplexer based on a nonlinear optical loop mirror with a photonic crystal fiber

Author

Siahlo, Andrei I. ; Oxenlwe, L.K. ; Berg, Kim S. ; Clausen, Anders T. ; Andersen, Peter A. ; Peucheret, Christophe ; Tersigni, Andrea ; Jeppesen, Palle ; Hansen, Kim P. ; Folkenberg, Jacob R.

Author_Institution

Res. Center Commun., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

15

Issue

8

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1147

Lastpage

1149

Abstract

A 50-m-long photonic crystal fiber with zero-dispersion wavelength at 1552 nm is used as the nonlinear medium in a nonlinear optical loop-mirror-based demultiplexer. The successful demultiplexing of an 80-Gb/s optical time-division multiplexing signal transmitted through an 80-km span of standard single-mode fiber and the error-free demultiplexing from 160 Gb/s are achieved.

Keywords

demultiplexing; mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; photonic crystals; time division multiplexing; 1552 nm; 160 Gbit/s; 50 m; 80 Gbit/s; 80 km; demultiplexing; error-free demultiplexing; high-speed demultiplexer; nonlinear medium; nonlinear optical loop mirror; nonlinear optical loop-mirror-based demultiplexer; optical time-division multiplexing signal; photonic crystal fiber; single-mode fiber; Demultiplexing; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Mirrors; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical interferometry; Optical sensors; Photonic crystal fibers; Sagnac interferometers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.815365

Filename

1215532