DocumentCode
774533
Title
2 
2 Exchange/Bypass Switch Using 0.8 m of Highly Nonlinear Bismuth Oxide Fiber
Author
Bakopoulos, P. ; Zouraraki, O. ; Vyrsokinos, K. ; Avramopoulos, H.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens
Volume
19
Issue
10
fYear
2007
fDate
5/15/2007 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
723
Lastpage
725
Abstract
We demonstrate an optically controlled 2times2 exchange/bypass switch using 0.8 m of highly nonlinear bismuth oxide fiber in an ultrafast-nonlinear-interferometer configuration. The switch has operated error-free with 10- and 40-Gb/s input signals, with power penalties in its bypass and exchange states of less than 0.3 and 1 dB, respectively. Use of the short bismuth oxide fiber ensured compact size, small latency, and improved operational stability compared to previous fiber-based switches
Keywords
bismuth compounds; high-speed optical techniques; light interferometry; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical switches; 0.8 m; 10 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; Bi2O3; bismuth oxide fiber; error-free operation; exchange-bypass switch; fiber-based switches; highly nonlinear fiber; operational stability; optically controlled switch; power penalties; ultrafast-nonlinear interferometer; Bismuth; Delay; Optical control; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Pulse modulation; Ultrafast optics; All-optical signal processing; bismuth oxide nonlinear fiber (Bi-NLF); crossbar switch; optically controlled exchange/bypass switch; ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI);
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1041-1135
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LPT.2007.895440
Filename
4154814
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