A Novel Architecture of N × N Bidirectional Reconfigurable Multiwavelength Optical Cross Connect

Manpreet Singh

doi:10.1515/joc-2017-0175

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A Novel Architecture of N × N Bidirectional Reconfigurable Multiwavelength Optical Cross Connect

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From the journal Journal of Optical Communications Volume 41 Issue 2

Abstract

A novel architecture of N×N bidirectional-reconfigurable multiwavelength optical cross connect (B-RMOXC) based on tunable Fiber Bragg grating and optical circulator is proposed. B-RMOXC network is one of crucial network element for wavelength routing in dense wavelength division multiplexing system. This paper presents a high speed, power compensated bidirectional optical cross connect and verified the performance of bidirectionality with 0.8-nm channel spacing having bit rate of 10 Gbps at different transmission distances. Optical signal-to-noise ratio of 36.62 dB and 35.55 dB is achieved with acceptable Quality factor of 6.26 and 6.99 respectively for upstream and downstream at 60 km having input transmission power of −12 dBm. It is found that the data can be communicated bidirectionally to a distance of 60 km in the presence of fiber nonlinearities without optical amplifier.

Keywords: bidirectional-reconfigurable multiwavelength optical cross connect (B-RMOXC); tunable fiber Bragg grating (T-FBG); optical circulator (OC); arrayed waveguide grating (AWG); bit error rate (BER)

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Received: 2017-10-07

Accepted: 2017-10-16

Published Online: 2017-10-28

Published in Print: 2020-03-26

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Keywords for this article

bidirectional-reconfigurable multiwavelength optical cross connect (B-RMOXC); tunable fiber Bragg grating (T-FBG); optical circulator (OC); arrayed waveguide grating (AWG); bit error rate (BER)