All-optical-networking at 0.8 Tb/s using reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers

Author

Leisching, Patrick ; Bock, Harald ; Richter, Alexander ; Glingener, Christoph ; Pace, Paolo ; Keyworth, Barrie ; Philipson, Joshua ; Farries, Mark ; Stoll, Detlef ; Fischer, Georg

Author_Institution

Adv. Transp. Syst., Siemens ICN TR ON DT3, Munich, Germany

Volume

12

Issue

7

fYear

2000

fDate

7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

918

Lastpage

920

Abstract

We report on the successful operation of a metropolitan DWDM network composed of static and reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers. The error-free transmission of 80 channels at 10-Gb/s line rate (0.8 Tb/s aggregate capacity) is demonstrated in a transparent fiber ring of 60-km circumference. The 50-GHz technology is enabled by an optical frequency interleaver, and single wavelength channels are routed dynamically by thermally tunable fiber gratings. This work experimentally demonstrates the concept for the German KOMNET Cityring field-trial, Berlin, Germany.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; optical tuning; reconfigurable architectures; telecommunication channels; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 0.8 Tbit/s; 10 Gbit/s; 60 km; Berlin; Gb/s line rate; German KOMNET Cityring field-trial; Germany; Tb/s; Tb/s aggregate capacity; all-optical-networking; error-free transmission; metropolitan DWDM network; optical frequency interleaver; reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers; routed dynamically; single wavelength channels; static optical add/drop multiplexers; thermally tunable fiber gratings; transparent fiber ring; Add-drop multiplexers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber gratings; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Routing; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.853554

Filename

853554