Experimental Demonstration of Remotely Controlled and Powered Optical Switching Based on Laser-Delivered Bias and Control Signals
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Fallahpour, Ahmad; Minoofar, Amir; Alishahi, Fatemeh; Zou, Kaiheng; Idres, Samer; Hashemi, Hossein; Habif, Jonathan; Tur, Moshe; Willner, Alan E.
- Source
- 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2021 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2021
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Multiplexing
Phase shift keying
Optical switches
Power lasers
Lasers and electrooptics
Optical fiber communication
(060.2360) Fiber optics links and subsystems
- Language
We experimentally demonstrate a remotely controlled and powered optical switch. The data channel, switching control signal and bias power are wavelength multiplexed and transmitted through 7.66 km SMF to the remote switch. We transmit a 20 Gbaud QPSK signal that is switched at 2 Mb/s rate.