Title :
High-speed digital optical networking
Author_Institution :
British Telecom Res. Labs., Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
Photonic interconnection fabrics are now being introduced to allow greater information carrying speed and capacity and to reduce complexity. Ideally, these optical interconnection systems would emulate the advantageous features of electronic systems: modularity, cascadability, scalability and freedom from architectural constraints. However the first generations of photonic networks (based on `transparent´ wavelength routing or optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM)) fall far short of this ideal
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical interconnections; telecommunication network routing; time division multiplexing; OTDM; cascadability; electronic systems; high-speed digital optical networking; information carrying capacity; information carrying speed; modularity; optical interconnection systems; optical interconnections; optical time-division multiplexin; photonic interconnection fabrics; photonic networks; scalability; transparent wavelength routing; Frequency synchronization; High speed optical techniques; Optical buffering; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; Optical pulse compression; Optical signal processing; Optical solitons; Repeaters; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4947-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1998.737814
