BER evaluation/or 3×3 reconfigurable multiwavelength bidirectional optical cross-connect
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Liaw, Shien-Kuei; Tsai, Pei-Shih; Ghassemlooy, Zabih; Minh, Hoa Le; Wu, Wen-Fang
- Source
- 2013 IEEE 4th International Conference on Photonics (ICP) Photonics (ICP), 2013 IEEE 4th International Conference on. :193-196 Oct, 2013
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical reflection
Fiber gratings
Optical fibers
Bit error rate
reconfigurable optical cross connect
fiber Bragg grating
WDM
bidirectional transmissione
- Language
- ISSN
- 2330-5665
The paper presents a power-compensated, 3×3 reconfigurable, multiwavelength and bidirectional optical cross-connect (RMB-OXC) for all-optical communications networks. RMB-OXC characteristics and its performance are experimentally verified in a bidirectional 8-channel × 10 Gb/s capacity system. We have observed only ∼0.5 dB power penalty in the bidirectional transmission in comparison to the unidirectional transmission. The proposed RMB-OXC can be utilised in many applications in high-speed wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) networks.