Title :
Physical layer characteristics and design of long haul fast turn-on/off and flow switched all-optical networks
Author :
Junio, Joseph ; Lei Zhang ; Chan, Vincent
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab. of Electron., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Adiabatic switching will quench EDFA transients at fast lightpath turn-on/off´s. A new metric determines lightpath performance. The worst case occurs when there is only one channel present with non-decreasing performance as more wavelengths are added.
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre networks; adiabatic switching; flow switched all-optical networks; lightpath performance; long haul fast turn-on-off; physical layer characteristics; quench EDFA transients; Adaptive optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical sensors; Optical switches; Transient analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th4E.5
