Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) has greatly helped in overcoming the propagation loses which are of biggest concern for next generation wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)/time division multiplexing (TDM) passive optical network (PON). This study is To characterize the performance of high-concentration EDFAs and the effect of the concentration quenching (homogeneous up-conversion and clu...

During the last decade, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light has attracted growing interest as a new degree of freedom for signal channel multiplexing in order to increase the information transmission capacity in today's optical networks. Here we present the design, fabrication and characterization of phase-only diffractive optical elements (DOE) performing mode-division (de)multiplexing...

ÐIn this paper, we study distributed path reservation protocols for multiplexed all-optical interconnection networks. The path reservation protocols negotiate the reservation and establishment of connections that arrive dynamically to the network. These protocols can be applied to both wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and time division multiplexing (TDM) networks. Two classes of protocols...

Optical Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OOFDM) is shown to outperform RZ-OOK transmission in high-speed optical communications systems in terms of transmission distance and spectral efficiency. The OOFDM in combination with the subcarrier multiplexing offers a significant improvement in spectral efficiency of at least 2.9 bits/s/Hz.

All-optical code conversion of 10 Gb/s BPSK codes without wavelength-shift by use of cross-phase modulation in an optical fiber for optical code division multiplexing networks is proposed and experimentally demonstrated.

The traffic flow in long-haul dense wavelength division multiplexing fiber networks has surpassed by far the traffic deliverability from/to the access network thus creating what is known as “access bottleneck”. This bottleneck was the result of two major factors, the inherent cost sensitivity of access networks that impedes deployment of new optical technology prior to cost maturity, and the la...

Increasing bandwidth demands, caused by growing numbers of users, increasing popularity of the Internet, multi-media services, and higher demands on quality, urge the development of ever faster networks. To meet these demands, optical techniques are being introduced in public networks but on a link-to-link basis. This paper addresses future networks that will be to a large extent alloptical. A ...

The rapidly increase in demand for bandwidth from end-users forces network infrastructure to be peta-bit/s capacity. The efficient utilization of the bandwidth of an optical fiber is a major issue in the design of ultrahigh-speed photonic networks. The two primary techniques for multiplexing data signals onto the channel of a single fiber are currently time division multiplexing (TDM) and wavel...

Significant effort in optical-fiber research has been put in recent years into realizing mode-division multiplexing (MDM) in conjunction with wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) to enable further scaling of the communication bandwidth per fiber. In contrast almost all integrated photonics operate exclusively in the single-mode regime. MDM is rarely considered for integrated photonics due to ...