High-speed digital optical networking

Author

Cotter, David

Author_Institution

British Telecom Res. Labs., Ipswich, UK

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1-4 Dec 1998

Firstpage

231

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4947-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1998.737814

Filename

737814