• DocumentCode
    2160332
  • Title

    Towards colourless coolerless components for low power optical networks

  • Author

    Townsend, P.D. ; Clarke, A. ; Ossieur, P. ; Smith, D.W. ; Borghesani, A. ; Moodie, D.G. ; Lealman, I.F. ; Qiu, X.Z. ; Bauwelinck, J. ; Yin, X. ; Grobe, K. ; Teipen, B.T. ; Jensen, R. ; Parsons, N. ; Kehayas, E.

  • Author_Institution
    Photonic Syst. Group, Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report progress towards low-power, colourless reflective photonic integrated circuits for cost-effective DWDM 100 Gb/s metro transport and 10 Gb/s access networks within the EU FP7 C3PO project.
  • Keywords
    integrated optics; optical fibre subscriber loops; wavelength division multiplexing; EU FP7 C3PO project; access networks; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; colourless coolerless components; colourless reflective photonic integrated circuits; cost-effective DWDM; low power optical networks; metro transport; Modulation; Optical reflection; Optical switches; Passive optical networks; Power demand; Radio frequency; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6066014