DocumentCode
1550525
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
Volume
37
Issue
23
fYear
2001
fDate
11/8/2001 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1402
Lastpage
1404
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20010946
Filename
966549
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