All‐optical wavelet‐based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system based on silicon photonic integrated components

Autor: Yosef Ben Ezra, Dvir Munk, Ran Califa, Avinoam Zadok, Boris I. Lembrikov
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: IET Optoelectronics. 10:44-50
ISSN: 1751-8776
DOI: 10.1049/iet-opt.2015.0064
Popis: In this study, the authors discuss in detail the implementation of all-optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing system based on discrete wavelet packet transform (DWPT) by using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) cascaded Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs). DWPT can be used in the multiplexing and de-multiplexing of data channels in coherent optical communication in order to improve spectral efficiency excluding a cyclic prefix. DWPT and inverse-DWPT may be realised in an integrated-photonic MZI platform. They demonstrated experimentally the post-fabrication tuning of 1 × 4 cascaded MZI de-multiplexing filters. Tuning procedures effectively overcome fabrication tolerances and meet the target transfer function of the devices. The fabrication platform represents an essential stepping-stone toward the all-optical realisation of DWPT-based multiplexing.
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