WDM-to-OTDM traffic grooming by means of asynchronous retiming

Author

Zarris, George ; Vorreau, Philipp ; Hillerkuss, David ; Ibrahim, Selwan K. ; Weerasuriya, Ruwan ; Ellis, Andrew D. ; Leuthold, Juerg ; Simeonidou, Dimitra

Author_Institution

Photonic Networks Lab., Univ. of Essex, Colchester

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We experimentally investigate data protocol transparent 3times43 Gb/s to 129 Gb/s WDM-to-OTDM conversion based on an asynchronous retiming scheme, for buffer-less OTDM traffic grooming. We demonstrate worst-case power penalty of less than 3.5 dB.

Keywords

optical wavelength conversion; protocols; telecommunication traffic; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM-to-OTDM conversion; asynchronous retiming; buffer-less OTDM traffic grooming; data protocol; optical time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; Clocks; Multiplexing; Optical buffering; Optical network units; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters; Synchronization; Telecommunication traffic; (060.1155) All-optical networks; (060.1810) Buffers, couplers, routers, switches, and multiplexers; (060.4230) Multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032677