Concepedia

40-Gb/s demultiplexing using an ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI)

N.S. Patel, K.A. Rauschenbach, K.L. Hall

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 1996 · 122 citations · 10 references

Concepts

EngineeringElectrical EngineeringDigital CommunicationOptoelectronicsPhotonicsFiber-optic CommunicationInterferometryNonlinear OpticsOptical Communication SystemsOptical ModulationUltrafast OpticsDemultiplexersHigh-speed TransmissionOptical DemultiplexingUltrafast Pulse Generation

Abstract

We demonstrate a 40-Gb/s demultiplexer using an ultrafast nonlinear interferometer (UNI). Bit-error-rate (BER) measurements are performed yielding incurred power penalties less than 3.3 dB for BER of 10/sup -9/.

References

10

Nonlinear-optical loop mirror

N.J. Doran, David Wood · Optics Letters · 1988 · 1.1K citations

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics +16

Models of blocking probability in all-optical networks with and without wavelength changers

R.A. Barry, P.A. Humblet · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 1996 · 565 citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +17

All-Optical Network Consortium-ultrafast TDM networks

R.A. Barry, Vincent W. S. Chan, K.L. Hall et al. · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 1996 · 358 citations

Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering +16

Subpicosecond gain and index nonlinearities in InGaAsP diode lasers

K.L. Hall, G. Lenz, Ali M. Darwish et al. · Optics Communications · 1994 · 185 citations

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science +16

Ultrafast polarization-discriminating Mach-Zehnder all-optical switch

Kenji Tajima, Shuji Nakamura, Yoshimasa Sugimoto · Applied Physics Letters · 1995 · 104 citations

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics +17