Title :
Multihop Signal Transmission Experiments Employing PLC-Based Hierarchical Optical Cross-Connect System
Author :
Moriwaki, Osamu ; Noguchi, Kazuto ; Takahashi, Hiroshi ; Sakamoto, Tadashi ; Sato, Ken-Ichi ; Hasegawa, Hiroshi ; Okuno, Masayuki ; Ohmori, Yasuji
Author_Institution :
NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi, Japan
Abstract :
The signal transmission characteristics of the first practical hierarchical optical cross-connect with a terabit-scale throughput are clarified experimentally employing 10-Gb/s wavelength-division-multiplexed signals. The observed power penalty was less than 0.9 dB after a 4-hop signal transmission.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical interconnections; optical planar waveguides; silicon compounds; wavelength division multiplexing; 4-hop signal transmission; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; hierarchical optical cross-connect; multihop signal transmission; silica waveguide planar lightwave circuit; terabit-scale throughput; wavelength division multiplexing; Adaptive optics; Backplanes; Optical crosstalk; Optical fibers; Optical switches; Wavelength division multiplexing; Optical fiber communication; optical planar waveguides; waveguide switches; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2010.2073697
