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To satisfy the demand for more transmission capacity, the fiber capacity is expanded by increasing both the number of wavelength channels (WDM) and the time-multiplexed bit rate (TDM) per WDM-channel. A channel bit rate of 40 Gbit/s will soon be installed and the next generation TDM bit rate of 160 Gbit/s is under active study in several research laboratories. As electrical signal processing is not available at 160 Gbit/s today, the TDM bit rate of 160 Gbit/s requires optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) technique.1 In this paper, we report on components and techniques enabling 160 Gbit/s OTDM transmission. We focus on semiconductor based devices.
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