Mach-Zehnder Interferometer-Based High-Speed OTDM Add-Drop Multiplexing

Author

De Melo, Alessandro Marques ; Randel, Sebastian ; Petermann, Klaus

Author_Institution

Technische Univ. Berlin

Volume

25

Issue

4

fYear

2007

fDate

4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1017

Lastpage

1026

Abstract

We propose a modified semiconductor-optical-amplifier-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer (SOA-MZI) setup for high-speed optical time division multiplexing add/drop multiplexing (ADM) operation. It has the property of enabling an independent phase optimization for clear and drop ports simultaneously. It provides, therefore, an improvement of standard SOA-MZI configurations where only one output port can be optimized at each time. A detailed analysis of the ADM performance for operation from 320-Gb/s aggregate bit rates to 10- and 40-Gb/s base data rates is carried out. Theoretical results show an excellent performance for a wide range of operation conditions

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; high-speed optical techniques; laser beam applications; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 320 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; add-drop multiplexing; high-speed OTDM; independent phase optimization; optical time-division multiplexing; semiconductor optical amplifier; Aggregates; Bit rate; High speed optical techniques; Optical interferometry; Optical signal processing; Performance analysis; Phase modulation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Time division multiplexing; Add–drop multiplexing (ADM); numerical modeling; optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM); optoelectronics; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2007.891974

Filename

4156251