Reconfigurable multichannel optical add-drop multiplexersincorporating eight-port optical circulators and fiber Bragg gratings |
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Authors: | An Vu Tran Wen De Zhong Tucker RS Kai Song |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Vic.; |
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Abstract: | We propose and demonstrate two new strictly nonblocking reconfigurable multichannel optical add-drop multiplexers (RM-OADMs) using optical circulators and fiber Bragg gratings. By effectively using eight-port optical circulators, the new structures significantly reduce component count and insertion loss, and achieve good crosstalk performance. One of the new RM-OADMs potentially achieves the lowest insertion loss among existing RM-OADMs |
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