Demonstration of a single-fiber self-healing CWDM metro access ring network with unidirectional OADM

Author

Wang, Zhaoxin ; Lin, Chinlon ; Chan, Chun-Kit

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China

Volume

18

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

163

Lastpage

165

Abstract

A simple and effective coarse wavelength-division-multiplexing metro access network architecture with unidirectional optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) for automatic optical protection in a hub/access-node single-fiber ring is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. This physical-ring/logical-star architecture greatly simplifies the design compared with previous works requiring bidirectional OADM.

Keywords

multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; CWDM; access-node single fiber ring; automatic optical protection; coarse wavelength-division-multiplexing; hub-node single fiber ring; logical-star architecture; metro access network; physical-ring architecture; ring network; single-fiber self-healing; unidirectional OADM; unidirectional optical add-drop multiplexer; Communication system traffic control; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical design; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical switches; Protection; Telecommunication traffic; Wavelength division multiplexing; Networks; protection; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.860400

Filename

1556662