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

doi:10.1109/68.826932

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

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Opto Speed SA

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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 language	English
Journal	I E E E Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	12
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	335-337
ISSN	1041-1135
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/68.826932
Publication status	Published - Mar 2000

Keywords

add-drop multiplexing
optical switches
optical time division multiplexing
regeneration

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

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