DocumentCode
316307
Title
10 Gbit/s/port and 256 ports optical crossbar switch with reduced hardware and enhanced modularity
Author
Maeno, Yoshiharu ; Suemura, Yoshihiko ; Kitamura, Shotaro ; Henmi, Naoya
Author_Institution
Opto-Electron. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan
Volume
3
fYear
1997
fDate
22-25 Sep 1997
Firstpage
67
Abstract
We propose a novel architecture of a 256×256 optical crossbar switch with optical components reduced to one eighth, large modularity and improved loss budget. We demonstrate its feasibility by a transmission experiment of 10 Gbit/s signals with a sensitivity penalty below 1 dB
Keywords
wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 256×256 optical crossbar switch; Gbit/s signals; WDM switching networks; enhanced modularity; improved loss budget; large modularity; optical components; optical crossbar switch; optical fibre networks; reduced hardware; sensitivity penalty; transmission experiment;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
Conference_Location
Edinburgh
ISSN
0537-9989
Print_ISBN
0-85296-697-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1049/cp:19971491
Filename
626707
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