Field Experiments With a Grooming Switch for OTDM Meshed Networking

Author

Zarris, George ; Hugues-Salas, E. ; Gonzalez, Norberto Amaya ; Weerasuriya, R. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Vorreau, P. ; Spyropoulou, M. ; Ibrahim, Selwan K. ; Ellis, A.D. ; Morais, R. ; Monteiro, Pedro ; Petropoulos, P. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Tomko

Author_Institution

Photonic Networks Lab., Univ. of Essex, Colchester, UK

Volume

28

Issue

4

fYear

2010

Firstpage

316

Lastpage

327

Abstract

Field experiments of 42.7/128.1 Gb/s wavelength-division multiplexed, optical time-division multiplexed (WDM-OTDM) transmultiplexing and all-optical dual-wavelength regeneration at the OTDM rate are presented in this paper. By using the asynchronous retiming scheme, we achieve error-free bufferless data grooming with time-slot interchange capability for OTDM meshed networking. We demonstrate excellent performance from the system, discuss scalability, applicability, and the potential reach of the asynchronous retiming scheme for transparent OTDM-domain interconnection.

Keywords

optical switches; transmultiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; OTDM; OTDM meshed networking; all-optical dual-wavelength regeneration; asynchronous retiming scheme; bit rate 128.1 Gbit/s; bit rate 42.7 Gbit/s; grooming switch; optical time-division multiplexed transmultiplexing; transparent OTDM-domain interconnection; wavelength-division multiplexing; Optical communication; optical signal processing; synchronization; time-division multiplexing; ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2009.2034121

Filename

5286274