Studies on optical digital cross-connect systems for very-high-speed optical communications networks

Author

Matsumoto, Takao ; Jinno, Masahiko ; Kimura, Kazuo ; Noguchi, Kazuhiro

Author_Institution

NTT Transmission Syst. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan

fYear

1994

fDate

1-5 May 1994

Firstpage

1060

Abstract

Optical time- and wavelength-domain paths in future very-high-speed optical communications networks are discussed taking into account trends in current optical transmission and optical signal processing technologies. It is important to investigate optical STM cross-connect systems for time-domain paths in the earlier research phase to ensure the deployment of optical cross-connect technology. The configuration of an optical cross-connect system and the issues that need to be investigated are presented. We also report, for the first time, a preliminary experiment of an optical STM cross-connect system, using 20 Gbit/s optical signals

Keywords

digital communication; optical fibre communication; optical fibre networks; optical information processing; optical switches; 20 Gbit/s; optical STM cross-connect system; optical communications networks; optical digital cross-connect systems; optical fiber communications networks; optical signal processing; optical signals; optical transmission; time-domain paths; very high speed networks; Communication networks; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical interconnections; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Stimulated emission; Transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1994. ICC '94, SUPERCOMM/ICC '94, Conference Record, 'Serving Humanity Through Communications.' IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1825-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1994.368939

Filename

368939