All-Optical Regenerative OTDM Add-Drop Multiplexing at 40 Gb/s using Monolithic InP Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

St. Fischer, M. Dülk, E. Gamper, W. Vogt, W. Hunziker, E. Gini, H. Melchior, Alvaro A. Buxens, Henrik Nørskov Poulsen, Anders Clausen

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    Abstract

    We present a novel method for all-optical add-drop multiplexing having regenerative capability for 40-Gb/s optical time-division multiplexed (OTDM) data using a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) based, monolithic Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). Simultaneous dropping of one 10-Gb/s channel out of 40-Gb/s OTDM data and perfect clearing of the corresponding time slot in the remaining 3 x 10 Gb/s data stream is demonstrated. Bit-error-rate measurements show a low penalty of 2 dB for each 10 Gb/s channel. No extra penalty was observed introducing a 10-Gb/s add channel through the device into the cleared time slot.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalI E E E Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume12
    Issue number3
    Pages (from-to)335-337
    ISSN1041-1135
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Mar 2000

    Keywords

    • add-drop multiplexing
    • optical switches
    • optical time division multiplexing
    • regeneration

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