Experimental demonstration of penalty-free optical cross-connect cascade with multiwavelength transmission over 1000-km standard fiber

Author

Jourdan, A. ; Soulage, G. ; da Loura, J. ; Bachmann, Michael ; Wunstel, K. ; Sotom, M.

Author_Institution

Telecom Res. Div., Alcatel Alsthom Recherche, Marcoussis

fYear

1997

Firstpage

92

Lastpage

93

Abstract

An optical cross-connect (OXC) architecture was proposed to implement high-capacity transparent wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) optical transport networks. A laboratory demonstrator was built to assess the feasibility of this concept. We report here a penalty-free cascade experiment of three 4×4, eight-channel OXCs operated at 2.5 Gbit/s including WDM transmission over 1000-km nondispersion-shifted fiber

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical interconnections; photonic switching systems; wavelength division multiplexing; 1000 km; 2.5 Gbit/s; WDM optical transport networks; carrier depletion; cross-phase modulation; high-capacity transparent WDM networks; multiwavelength space switching; multiwavelength transmission; nondispersion-shifted fiber; penalty-free optical cross-connect cascade; signal reshaping; tunable wavelength selection stage; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser tuning; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical packet switching; Optical saturation; Optical wavelength conversion; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength conversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719722

Filename

719722