Design and implementation of a fully reconfigurable all-optical crossconnect for high capacity multiwavelength transport networks

Author

Jourdan, Amaury ; Masetti, Francesco ; Garnot, Matthieu ; Soulage, Guy ; Sotom, Michel

Author_Institution

Alcatel Alsthom Recherche, Marcoussis, France

Volume

14

Issue

6

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1198

Lastpage

1206

Abstract

The motivations and application framework for the introduction of all-optical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission and routing techniques in the transport network are presented. The requirements and functionalities of all-optical transparent routing nodes are discussed, and the physical architecture of a crossconnection node is proposed, to meet these requirements. Optical devices suitable for the node implementation are compared, and first demonstrations of crossconnection function at data rates up to 10 Gb/s are given. These results bring experimental evidence of the high potential of all-optical routing nodes for actual implementation of multiwavelength transport networks

Keywords

optical design techniques; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre networks; reconfigurable architectures; telecommunication network routing; transparency; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM transmission; all-optical routing nodes; all-optical transparent routing nodes; all-optical wavelength division multiplexing; crossconnection function; crossconnection node; data rates; fully reconfigurable all-optical crossconnect; high capacity multiwavelength transport networks; multiwavelength transport networks; physical architecture; routing techniques; transport network; Costs; Helium; Integrated circuit interconnections; Optical crosstalk; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Space technology; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.511621

Filename

511621