ALL-OPTICAL SWITCH FOR TDM AND WDM TDM SYSTEMS DEMONSTRATED IN A 640GBIT/S DEMULTIPLEXING EXPERIMENT/

Authors
DIEZ S LUDWIG R WEBER HG
Citation
S. Diez et al., ALL-OPTICAL SWITCH FOR TDM AND WDM TDM SYSTEMS DEMONSTRATED IN A 640GBIT/S DEMULTIPLEXING EXPERIMENT/, Electronics Letters, 34(8), 1998, pp. 803-805
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
34
Issue
8
Year of publication
1998
Pages
803 - 805
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1998)34:8<803:ASFTAW>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
A novel interferometric switch is presented that exhibits high lineari ty, high switching contrast, low noise, wide bandwidth and low crossta lk. The switching principle, which is based on refractive index modula tion in a wavelength band far from the gain region of a semiconductor- optical amplifier, is successfully demonstrated in an error-free 640 G bit/s demultiplexing experiment.