An All-Optical Grooming Switch for Interconnecting Access and Metro Ring Networks [Invited]

Author

Bonk, R. ; Vorreau, P. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Freude, W. ; Zarris, G. ; Simeonidou, D. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Weerasuriya, R. ; Ibrahim, S. ; Ellis, A.D. ; Klonidis, D. ; Tomkos, I. ; Leuthold, J.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Photonics & Quantum Electron., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol. (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

3

Issue

3

fYear

2011

fDate

3/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

206

Lastpage

214

Abstract

A regenerative all-optical grooming switch for interconnecting 130 Gbit/s on-off keying (OOK) metro/core ring and 43 Gbit/s-OOK metro/access ring networks with switching functionality in time, space, and wavelength domains is demonstrated. Key functionalities of the switch are traffic aggregation with time-slot interchanging functionality, optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) demultiplexing, and multi-wavelength 2R regeneration. Laboratory and field demonstrations show the excellent performance of the new concept with error-free signal transmission and Q-factors above 20 dB.

Keywords

Q-factor; amplitude shift keying; demultiplexing; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical interconnections; optical switches; telecommunication traffic; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; OTDM; Q-factor; WDM demultiplexing; error-free signal transmission; interconnecting access networks; metro ring networks; multiwavelength 2R regeneration; on-off keying; optical time division multiplexing; regenerative all-optical grooming switch; time-slot interchanging functionality; traffic aggregation; wavelength division multiplexing; Converters; Micromechanical devices; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Wavelength division multiplexing; All-optical networks; Nonlinear optics; Routers; and multiplexers; switches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Optical Communications and Networking, IEEE/OSA Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0620

Type

jour

DOI

10.1364/JOCN.3.000206

Filename

5720568