Experimental demonstration of 2×80-Gbit/s OTDM multi-channel add-drop multiplexing in a single fiber

In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate simultaneously all-optical optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) add-drop multiplexing (ADM) operation of two 80-Gbit/s OTDM signals by using a single highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF). The performance of ADM is experimental studied. The experimental results show that only a power penalty of 1.5dB for the channel dropping function and no distinct power penalty for the adding function.