scholarly journals Generalization of an Optical ASA Switch

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1096
Author(s):  
Bey-Chi Lin

An arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) is a kind of passive wavelength router, and it is the most promising technology for developing large optical switches. However, AWGs have poor scalability, and using small AWGs to construct a large switch has been done in many prior works. A novel AWG-based switch called ASA (AWG, Space switching, AWG) that does not use wavelength converters has been proposed. It can expand the switch size from N to N2 by using N × N AWGs. In this paper, we generalize the ASA switch by using only N × N AWGs, N × N space switches, and N wavelengths such that the switch size is expanded to Nt for any positive integer t. Since each port of an N × N AWG can transmit up to N wavelengths simultaneously, the total capacity of the generalized ASA switch is extended to be close to Nt+1 × the bandwidth of a wavelength channel, provided that the inputs which are located in the same port position of each input AWG are destined to distinct outputs.

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 664 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Dumon ◽  
W. Bogaerts ◽  
D. Van Thourhout ◽  
D. Taillaert ◽  
R. Baets ◽  
...  

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoping Zhang ◽  
Yanping Li ◽  
Ge Xia ◽  
Qi Lin ◽  
Huamei Tian ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 764-765 ◽  
pp. 1240-1244
Author(s):  
Yao Tang Chang ◽  
Chung Wei Tsailin

To further robust confidentiality protecting against eavesdropping over optical code-division multiple-access (OCDMA) networks, this study improves the robustness of the network toward eavesdropping for encryption/decryption mechanism by using a specified storage register controller controlling optical switches approach in which Free-spectral-range group hopping code is used to generate a specific signature address. This paper presents an enhanced security mechanism to protect spectral-amplitude-coding optical code-division multiple-access (SAC-OCDMA) networks against eavesdropping. This study proposes an alternative to huge code-space size techniques such as wavelength hopping and exchange-encode for network protection against eavesdropping by exploiting the cyclic properties of arrayed-waveguide-grating routers and maximal-length sequence code (M-sequence code). In addition, the network is protected using a wavelength hopping based on optical switches and exchange the encode assignment scheme implemented using the exchange switches before import to arrayed-waveguide-grating routers (AWG).In this scheme, eavesdropper is difficult to solute correct user data bit , whatever there is using brute-force searching or simple energy detector..


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongqiang Li ◽  
Yaoting Bai ◽  
Xiaye Dong ◽  
Enbang Li ◽  
Yang Li ◽  
...  

Four methods based on a multimode interference (MMI) structure are optimally designed to flatten the spectral response of silicon-on-insulator- (SOI-) based arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) applied in a demodulation integration microsystem. In the design for each method, SOI is selected as the material, the beam propagation method is used, and the performances (including the 3 dB passband width, the crosstalk, and the insertion loss) of the flat-top AWG are studied. Moreover, the output spectrum responses of AWGs with or without a flattened structure are compared. The results show that low insertion loss, crosstalk, and a flat and efficient spectral response are simultaneously achieved for each kind of structure. By comparing the four designs, the design that combines a tapered MMI with tapered input/output waveguides, which has not been previously reported, was shown to yield better results than others. The optimized design reduced crosstalk to approximately −21.9 dB and had an insertion loss of −4.36 dB and a 3 dB passband width, that is, approximately 65% of the channel spacing.


2011 ◽  
Vol 130-134 ◽  
pp. 2245-2248
Author(s):  
Yong Hong Ma ◽  
Chong Xiang Zhang ◽  
Pan Zhang

we demonstrate a wavelength interleaved DWDM Radio-over-Fiber (ROF) system for providing 1-Gb/s OFDM signal in downlink and 1-Gb/s OOK data in uplink simultaneously. In this scheme, we use only one arrayed waveguide grating device at the remote node to realize both the de-multiplexing and multiplexing functions. The experimental results demonstrate that this scheme is feasible to the future broadband high-speed OFDM-ROF access system.


2007 ◽  
Vol 279 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guohua Hu ◽  
Yiping Cui ◽  
Binfeng Yun ◽  
Changgui Lu ◽  
Zhuyuan Wang

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