64 Gb/s all-optical demultiplexing with the nonlinear optical-loop mirror

Peter A. Andrekson, N.A. Olsson, J.R. Simpson, D. J. DiGiovanni, Paul A. Morton, T. Tanbun-Ek, R. A. Logan, K. W. Wecht

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 1992 · 64 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

The first complete nonlinear optical-loop mirror demultiplexing experiments including error-rate measurements are reported. Broadband demultiplexing of 16-, 32-, and 64-Gb/s, 2/sup 15/-1 data was performed using only semiconductor lasers. The penalty for demultiplexing a 64-Gb/s time-division multiplexed data stream to the 4-Gb/s fundamental rate was 2.2 dB at an error rate of 10/sup -9/. The switching pulse energy was 1.1 pJ.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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