Title :
N × N optical cross-connect based on tunable fibre Bragg gratings with high channel scalability
Author :
Moon, Nam Su ; Kikuchi, K.
Author_Institution :
Res. Center for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ., Japan
fDate :
11/8/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A highly channel-scalable N × N optical cross-connect (OXC) based on tunable fibre Bragg gratings is proposed. The channel scalability of the proposed OXC is owing to cascadability of individual routing modules which perform routing only for specified wavelength channels. The routing function of a 3 × 3 routing block of the proposed OXC using four OC-192 channels with a channel spacing of 0.8 nm is demonstrated, as is the upgradability of the number of ports and wavelength channels
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; modules; optical fibre communication; optical interconnections; telecommunication channels; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; cascadability; channel spacing; high channel scalability; optical cross-connect; routing block; routing function; routing modules; tunable fibre Bragg gratings; wavelength channels;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20010946
