Monolithic Multiband Nanosecond Programmable Wavelength Router

A compact scalable reconfigurable multiwavelength router is proposed and demonstrated using an electronically gated cyclic router. Simultaneous wavelength-multiplexed channel allocation is performed with power penalties of 0.2-0.8 dB. Nanosecond timescale reconfiguration is achieved within a 2-ns gu...

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Published inIEEE photonics journal Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 29 - 35
Main Authors Rohit, A., Williams, K.A., Leijtens, X.J.M., de Vries, T., Oei, Y.S., Heck, M.J.R., Augustin, L.M., Notzel, R., Robbins, D.J., Smit, M.K.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway IEEE 01.02.2010
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Allocations
Arrayed waveguide gratings
Circuits
Filters
Guards
Nanocomposites
Nanomaterials
Nanostructure
Noise levels
Optical communication
Optical fiber communication
Optical waveguides
Phased arrays
Photonics
Routers
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Semiconductor waveguides
tunable filters
Wavelength routing
wavelength-division multiplexing
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Summary:A compact scalable reconfigurable multiwavelength router is proposed and demonstrated using an electronically gated cyclic router. Simultaneous wavelength-multiplexed channel allocation is performed with power penalties of 0.2-0.8 dB. Nanosecond timescale reconfiguration is achieved within a 2-ns guard band using semiconductor optical amplifier gates.
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ISSN:1943-0655
1943-0655
1943-0647
DOI:10.1109/JPHOT.2010.2040729