Defragmentation and grooming on 85.4 Gb/s by simultaneous format and wavelength conversion in an integrated quad SOA-MZI

Author

Anis, M. Irfan ; Amaya, N. ; Zervas, G.S. ; Nejabati, R. ; Simeonidou, D. ; Scaffardi, M. ; Bogoni, A. ; Pinna, S. ; Fresi, F.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Essex, Colchester, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 April 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate simultaneous format and wavelength conversion of multiple fragmented signals suitable for gridless and multi-granular networks. Conversion of NRZ and large-RZ to short-RZ-OOK by means of a single commercial Quad SOA-MZI is demonstrated for grooming 85.4 Gb/s frame. The output RZ-OOK signal is suitable for further tributary multiplexing onto a 170.8 Gb/s OTDM stream. The resultant OTDM channel is transmitted over a 110-km dark fiber link.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; amplitude shift keying; optical fibre networks; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time division multiplexing; OTDM stream; bit rate 170.8 Gbit/s; bit rate 85.4 Gbit/s; dark fiber link; distance 110 km; gridless network; integrated quad SOA-MZI; multigranular networks; multiple fragmented signals; optical time division multiplexing; output RZ-OOK signal; semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach-Zehnder interferometer; short-RZ-OOK conversion; spectrum defragmentation; tributary multiplexing; wavelength conversion; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Multigranular Network; Optical Signal Processing; Optical Time Division Multiplexing; Semiconductor Optical Amplifier-Mach-Zehnder Interferometer; Spectrum Defragmentation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), 2012 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Colchester

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1440-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-1441-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ONDM.2012.6210269

Filename

6210269