A dual purpose, all optical multiplexer circuit in InP: Muxing clock and data, and transmultiplexing WDM to TDM

摘要

We present a new, integrated all-optical multiplexer for λ-grooming of many WDM channels into a single TDM channel. The chip was realized in a novel generic InP foundry process. Successful WDM to TDM transmultiplexing is demonstrated, as well as multiplexing of clock and NRZ data.