HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL-PATH ROUTING BY USING 4-WAVE-MIXING AND A WAVELENGTH ROUTER WITH FIBER GRATINGS AND OPTICAL CIRCULATORS

被引:3
作者
YAMAMOTO, T
IMAI, T
KOMUKAI, T
MIYAJIMA, Y
NAKAZAWA, M
机构
[1] NTT Access Network Systems Laboratories, Optical Transmission Line Laboratory, Tokai, Ibaraki-ken
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10.1016/0030-4018(95)00436-C
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A novel all-optical-path-routing technique is described, which employs four-wave mixing in a dispersion-shifted fiber and a wavelength router with fiber gratings and optical circulators. The signal wavelength is converted to a specified channel by four-wave mixing, and is finally selected with the wavelength router. It offers good potential for enabling the number of output ports of a wavelength router to be extended as it provides a very sharp spectral edge and a low insertion loss.
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