{"title":"Compact and fully-packaged fibre grating laser-based RZ pulse source for 40 Gbit/s OTDM transmission systems","authors":"V. Mikhailov, P. Bayvel, I. Lealman, R. Wyatt","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2001.989654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2001.989654","url":null,"abstract":"The first 40 Gbit/s OTDM experiment using a compact and fully-packaged actively mode-locked fibre grating laser (FGL) as an RZ pulse source is reported. A low transmission penalty was achieved as a result of high-quality, transform limited pulses.","PeriodicalId":408519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (Cat. No.01TH8551)","volume":"1197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116284751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A wedge-shaped GIF for coupling between an SMF and a high-power LD having ultra-high aspect ratio","authors":"H. Yoda, T. Sakurai, A. Ogura, K. Shiraishi","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2001.989694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2001.989694","url":null,"abstract":"A novel lensed fiber for high-efficiency coupling between an SMF and a high-power LD having a high aspect ratio of 42 was developed and fabricated for the first time. A coupling loss of 2.4 dB was obtained.","PeriodicalId":408519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (Cat. No.01TH8551)","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115599953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. T. Hill, A. Srivatsa, N. Calabretta, Y. Liu, H. Waardt, G. Khoe, H. Dorren
{"title":"1/spl times/2 all optical packet switch","authors":"M. T. Hill, A. Srivatsa, N. Calabretta, Y. Liu, H. Waardt, G. Khoe, H. Dorren","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2001.989102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2001.989102","url":null,"abstract":"We present a 1/spl times/2 all-optical packet switch. The header processing is implemented by using a SLALOM structure and an optical flip-flop memory is used to store the header processing decision. The packets are switched in wavelength by using cross-gain modulation. Experimental results are presented.","PeriodicalId":408519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (Cat. No.01TH8551)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115622792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A dense WDM source for high spectral efficiency systems using comb generation and SG-DBR injection-locked laser filtering","authors":"C. Silva, A. Seeds","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2001.989014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2001.989014","url":null,"abstract":"Using absolute optical frequency referencing, an exact frequency synthesiser for dense WDM is reported, with widely tuneable sampled grating DBR lasers phase locked to one of the 64 optical carriers, 17.5 GHz spacing, generated by an amplified fibre loop comb generator.","PeriodicalId":408519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (Cat. No.01TH8551)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115792055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Watanabe, T. Goh, M. Okuno, S. Sohma, T. Shibata, M. Itoh, M. Kobayashi, M. Ishii, A. Sugita, Y. Hibino
{"title":"Silica-based PLC 1/spl times/128 thermo-optic switch","authors":"T. Watanabe, T. Goh, M. Okuno, S. Sohma, T. Shibata, M. Itoh, M. Kobayashi, M. Ishii, A. Sugita, Y. Hibino","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2001.988853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2001.988853","url":null,"abstract":"We successfully fabricated a silica-based 1/spl times/128 thermo-optic switch (TOSW) with an insertion loss of 4 dB and an extinction ratio of 40 dB using planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology. This TOSW is promising for realizing a large-scale optical switch system.","PeriodicalId":408519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (Cat. No.01TH8551)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124282620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Mora, B. Ortega, J. Cruz, D. Pastor, J. Capmany, M. Andrés, S. Sales
{"title":"Automatic and accurate low cost high frequency characterisation technique of chirped fibre Bragg gratings","authors":"J. Mora, B. Ortega, J. Cruz, D. Pastor, J. Capmany, M. Andrés, S. Sales","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2001.989075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2001.989075","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a high frequency low cost technique for characterising the reflectivity and time delay spectral response of chirped fibre Bragg gratings. Wavelength resolution of 0.06 nm, time delay accuracy below 1 ps, automatic and non-interferometric measurement are their main advantages. The technique does not need expensive tunable laser systems, is not based on optical interferometry and can be automatised in a production line.","PeriodicalId":408519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (Cat. No.01TH8551)","volume":"13 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120821504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. de Merlier, G. Morthier, T. van Caenegem, R. Baets, I. Moerman, P. van Daele
{"title":"Experimental demonstration of 15 dB extinction ratio improvement in a new 2R optical regenerator based on an MMI-SOA","authors":"J. de Merlier, G. Morthier, T. van Caenegem, R. Baets, I. Moerman, P. van Daele","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2001.989115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2001.989115","url":null,"abstract":"All-optical regeneration has been demonstrated for the first time using a 2/spl times/2 MMI-SOA, showing a digital-like transfer characteristic and an output extinction ratio of 22 dB for an input extinction ratio of 7 dB.","PeriodicalId":408519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (Cat. No.01TH8551)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121040708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Box-like filter response by vertically series coupled microring resonator filter","authors":"Y. Yanagase, S. Suzuki, Y. Kokubun, S. Chu","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2001.989142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2001.989142","url":null,"abstract":"Triple coupled microring resonator add/drop filters with stacked configuration were designed and fabricated. The box-like filter response with a flat pass band was successfully obtained and the FSR was extended to 25.8 nm owing to the Vernier effect.","PeriodicalId":408519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (Cat. No.01TH8551)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127215580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. M. Fuster, J. Marti, P. Candelas, F. Martínez, L. Sempere
{"title":"Optical generation of electrical modulation formats","authors":"J. M. Fuster, J. Marti, P. Candelas, F. Martínez, L. Sempere","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2001.989097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2001.989097","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate a novel technique to generate the transmission signal in digital microwave link applications. This technique is based on a photonic device that achieves both electrical modulation (QAM, PSK, ASK) and harmonic upconversion of the microwave carrier. Simulation results are provided for a 7th-harmonic 38.5 GHz transmission of a 155 Mps signal through a 1 km fiber span. Experimental results are also reported for BPSK modulation.","PeriodicalId":408519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (Cat. No.01TH8551)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127486256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An accurate numerical model for distributed Raman amplifiers","authors":"E.A. Kunarajah, J. Lepley, A. S. Siddiqui","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2001.988898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2001.988898","url":null,"abstract":"We present, for the first time, a complete numerical analysis of Raman amplifiers including pump depletion and higher-order Stokes wave generation. Raman gain and OSNR in co-propagating, counterpropagating and bi-directionally pumped FRAs are examined.","PeriodicalId":408519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (Cat. No.01TH8551)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124760488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}