Experimental demonstration of reconfigurable and simultaneous wavelength-division-multiplexed multiple-plane optical interconnections

We report the first experimental demonstration of using wavelength-division-multiplexing and wavelength-selective-detection to facilitate either reconfigurable or simultaneous optical interconnections between one source plane and many detector planes. We show the 10/sup -9/ BER, 155 Mb/s transmission and detection of three different wavelength-multiplexed signals at three detector planes. The reconfigurable interconnection is established with a wavelength separation of 10 nm, and the simultaneous interconnection is established with a wavelength separation of 43 nm.