Abstract Flexible optical networks require reconfigurable devices with operation on a wavelength range of several tens nanometers, hitless tuneability (i.e. transparency to other channels during reconfiguration), and polarization independence. All these requirements have not been achieved yet in single photonic integrated device this is the reason why potential photonics still largely unexploit...

Land seismic data often shows large variations in energy from one trace to the next. Localized noise bursts or changes in signal to noise ratio in a shot gather, for instance where the receiver spread nears a road or machinery, are not uncommon problems. Also, geophones may be poorly coupled in an area, because of surface conditions or simply having been kicked loose. Claerbout (1994) points ou...

A configurable optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) based on fibre Bragg gratings is reported. Dynamically selection of the add-drop or pass-through functionality is realised according to the control of an optical switch. The OADM performance measurement realised in a 70 km, 3 × 2.5 Gb/s channels dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) experimental network are reported and the results comp...

We propose a compact matrix-switch-based hierarchical optical cross-connect (HOXC) architecture that effectively handles the colorless waveband add/drop ratio restriction so as to realize switch scale reduction. In order to implement the colorless waveband add/drop function, we develop a wavelength MUX/DMUX that can be commonly used by different wavebands. We prove that the switch scale of the ...

We analyze theoretically the output efficiencies of surface-emitting channel drop filters using channel drop tunneling processes in two-dimensional photonic crystal slabs. By using the channel drop tunneling processes, the output efficiencies of the filters can be easily improved to the values much higher than 50%, the maximum output efficiency of surface-emitting channel drop filters using one...

In the present paper a novel structure for optical channel drop filter (CDF) based on photonic crystal ring resonator with circular core has been proposed. In order to design the proposed CDF, the plan wave expansion (PWE) method is applied for calculation of band structure and photonic band gap while the transmission characteristics of proposed CDF have been calculated using the finite differe...

In this paper, a channel drop ring resonator filter based on two dimensional photonic crystal is proposed which is suitable for all optical communication systems. The multilayer of silicon rods in the center of resonant ring enables one to adjust resonant wavelength of the ring and enhance power coupling efficiency between ring and waveguide. Refractive index and radius of multilayer rods insid...