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Wavelength-division multiplexing
About: Wavelength-division multiplexing is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25059 publications have been published within this topic receiving 332027 citations. The topic is also known as: WDM.
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27 Jul 1993TL;DR: In this article, a single modulator modulates the output of an array of individually actuable semiconductor lasers integrated onto the same substrate as the modulator, and an optical combiner is used to combine the outputs of the lasers.
Abstract: A wavelength-division-multiplexed transmitter has a single modulator modulating the output of an array of individually actuable semiconductor lasers integrated onto the same substrate as the modulator. An optical combiner integrated onto the same substrate between each of the lasers and the single modulator combines the outputs of the lasers. One or more of the lasers are activated as desired for wavelength division multiplexing.
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TL;DR: The advances in photonic device technologies are bringing ultra-high-bit-rate networking-at speeds towards 100 Gb/s and beyond-much closer to practical reality, making it possible now to envisage the use of OTDM techniques not just in the highest layers of national and international networks, but also much closer to the user.
Abstract: The advances in photonic device technologies are bringing ultra-high-bit-rate networking-at speeds towards 100 Gb/s and beyond-much closer to practical reality. It is increasingly likely that in the longer term ultrafast optical time-division techniques-together with wavelength multiplexing-will be used in networks at all levels, from the transcontinental backbone to the desktop. Examples of devices include a subpicosecond clock source packaged inside a laptop personal computer and an OTDM switch on a single semiconductor chip, both produced at HHI. Advances similar to these make it possible now to envisage the use of OTDM techniques, not just in the highest layers of national and international networks, but also much closer to the user-such as the world-first demonstrations at BT Laboratories of a 40 Gb/s TDMA LAN and a 100 Gb/s packet self-routing switch for multiprocessor interconnection. Ultrafast networks might even provide the interconnection backplane inside future desktop routers and servers with massive throughput.
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31 Jul 1998TL;DR: In this article, a fiber optic shape measurement system using Bragg grating sensor technology and time, spatial, and wavelength division multiplexing was proposed to produce a plurality of strain measurements along one fiber path.
Abstract: A fiber optic measurement system capable of greatly improving the cost, complexity, and efficiency with which flexible body shape estimates are made. The fiber optic shape measurement system uses Bragg grating sensor technology and time, spatial, and wavelength division multiplexing, to produce a plurality of strain measurements along one fiber path. Using a plurality of fibers, shape determination of the body and the tow cable can be made with minimal ambiguity. Also disclosed is a method to resolve the body shape based on strain-to-shape structural analysis. Possible applications include, but are not limited to, sensing the shape and position of flexible bodies, aid in improving the efficiency of existing acoustic surveying processing techniques, and related applications in geophysical prospecting.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an outline of planar lightwave circuits (PLCs) focusing on passive devices such as arrayed waveguide grating multiplexers is presented. But the authors do not discuss the role of PLCs in both optical dense wavelength-division multiplexing networks and optical access networks.
Abstract: Silica-based planar lightwave circuits (PLCs) are playing key roles in both optical dense wavelength-division multiplexing networks and optical access networks. This paper provides an outline of PLC technology focusing on passive devices such as arrayed waveguide grating multiplexers.
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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of coherent and incoherent crosstalk on an optical signal passing through optical cross-connect nodes (OXC's) in WDM optical networks is studied, and the analytical expressions are given.
Abstract: The impact of coherent and incoherent crosstalk on an optical signal passing through optical cross-connect nodes (OXC's) in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks is studied, and the analytical expressions are given. Such crosstalk will be generated when the optical propagation delay differences of optical paths in an OXC do not exceed the coherent time of the lasers. While causing fluctuation of signal power, coherent crosstalk may cause noise or not, depending on the relationship between the optical propagation delay differences and the time duration of one bit of the signal. Incoherent crosstalk may cause very high noise power, because it can be a coherent combination of crosstalk contributions. The statistical impact of all crosstalk contributions on signal is studied by simulation, and the concept of quantile is proposed to relax the crosstalk specification requirement for components. The crosstalk specification requirements are then obtained for components used in WDM optical networks with different scales.
167 citations