All-optical nonblocking terabit/s crossconnect based on low power all-optical wavelength converter and MEMS switch fabric

Author

Leuthold, J. ; Ryf, R. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Neilson, D.T. ; Joyner, C.H. ; Giles, C.R.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

17-22 March 2001

Abstract

All-optical nonblocking routing of 80 10 Gb/s C-band channels is demonstrated with a 100/spl times/100 optical crossconnect. The enabling technology is a channel equalizing low-power wavelength converter operating with -14 dBm input power such that no single channel amplification is needed.

Keywords

microactuators; optical communication equipment; optical interconnections; optical wavelength conversion; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; C-band channels; MEMS switch fabric; all-optical nonblocking crossconnect; all-optical nonblocking routing; all-optical wavelength conversion; channel equalizing low-power wavelength converter; input power; low power all-optical wavelength converter; optical crossconnect technology; single channel amplification; Fabrics; Microswitches; Optical interconnections; Optical sensors; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Propagation delay; Wavelength conversion; Wavelength converters; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2001. OFC 2001

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-655-9

Type

conf

Filename

927550