• DocumentCode
    1793867
  • Title

    Physical layer characteristics and design of long haul fast turn-on/off and flow switched all-optical networks

  • Author

    Junio, Joseph ; Lei Zhang ; Chan, Vincent

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Lab. of Electron., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    9-13 March 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Adiabatic switching will quench EDFA transients at fast lightpath turn-on/off´s. A new metric determines lightpath performance. The worst case occurs when there is only one channel present with non-decreasing performance as more wavelengths are added.
  • Keywords
    erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; adiabatic switching; flow switched all-optical networks; lightpath performance; long haul fast turn-on-off; physical layer characteristics; quench EDFA transients; Adaptive optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical sensors; Optical switches; Transient analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-5575-2994-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1364/OFC.2014.Th4E.5
  • Filename
    6886843