Title :
All-optical dense WDM wide-area communication network
Author :
Chan, Shiu C. ; Lu, Minghua ; Udpa, Satish S. ; Udpa, Lalita ; Jacobson, Doug W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Eng., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes a high capacity, scalable and modular all-optical dense WDM WAN. The network assumes a ring-tree (tree of rings) topology and employs all-optical packet switching, wavelength reuse, conversion, and routing schemes for data transport. The optical fiber four-wave mixing (FWM) nonlinear phenomenon is used for wavelength conversion, and erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) are used for signal amplification, in the network. The proposed network can be implemented at various scales, from a LAN to a global communication framework. Its transport protocols can be adapted for any dense wavelength-reuse WDM network
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical fibre networks; optical frequency conversion; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; wavelength division multiplexing; wide area networks; all-optical dense WDM wide area communication network; capacity; data transport; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; modular ring-tree topology; optical fiber four-wave mixing nonlinear phenomenon; packet switching; routing; scalability; signal amplification; transport protocol; wavelength conversion; wavelength reuse; Communication networks; Four-wave mixing; Network topology; Optical fibers; Packet switching; WDM networks; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength routing; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1996., IEEE 39th Midwest symposium on
Conference_Location :
Ames, IA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3636-4
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.1996.593068
