Performance of a wavelength-routed all-optical network at over 100 Gigabit/s

Author

Hemenway, B.R. ; Stevens, M.L. ; Parikh, S.A. ; Marquis, D. ; Swanson, E.A.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

5-9 Aug. 1996

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

13

Abstract

There are several network services provided by the 20 channel (50 GHz spaced) all-optical network (AON) testbed deployed in the Boston metropolitan area. In this work, we report on a new metropolitan area service with 10 Gbps access rates per channel using tunable transmitters and receivers to support, for instance, SONET OC-192 users. We demonstrate operation of more than 10 independent local and metropolitan channels for a total data rate exceeding 100 Gigabit/s. This is the first time such high rates have been demonstrated in a dense WDM system utilizing all-optical wavelength routing and partitioning for wavelength and channel re-use.

Keywords

SONET; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre LAN; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 100 Gbit/s; Boston metropolitan area; SONET OC-192 users; access rates; all-optical wavelength routing; channel re-use; dense WDM system; high rates; metropolitan area service; network services; receivers; total data rate; tunable transmitters; wavelength partitioning; wavelength-routed all-optical network; All-optical networks; Broadcasting; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber testing; Optical interconnections; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Space technology; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Applications of Lasers in Materials Processing/Broadband Optical Networks/Smart Pixels/Optical MEMs and Their Applications. IEEE/LEOS 1996 Summer Topical Meetings:

Conference_Location

Keystone, CO, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3175-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.1996.540690

Filename

540690