Negligible penalty all-optical routing using a 12/spl times/12 passive InP wavelength-selective router

Author

Bainbridge, J.D. ; Sharafi, A.R. ; White, Ian H. ; Cowin, M.A. ; Stephens, M.F.C. ; Owen, M. ; Penty, Richard V. ; Guild, K.M. ; Tzanakaki, Anna ; O´Mahony, M.J. ; Thompson, G.H.B. ; Clements, Stephen J. ; Rogers, C.B.

Author_Institution

Centre for Commun. Res., Bristol Univ., UK

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

316

Lastpage

317

Abstract

Summary form only given. This paper demonstrates transmission at 2.5 Gbit/s across two cascaded WDM network nodes, constructed using counter-propagating SOA wavelength converters and an integrated wavelength-selective router separated by 45 km of fiber, with an overall penalty of 0.6 dB. Minimal degradation of the eye diagram was observed across the whole system. Full utilization of the capacity of the router would allow an aggregate 360-Gbit/s node capacity for a WDM channel of 2.5 Gbit/s.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; indium compounds; integrated optics; optical fibre networks; semiconductor lasers; telecommunication channels; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 12/spl times/12 passive InP wavelength-selective router; 2.5 Gbit/s; 360 Gbit/s; 45 km; Gbit/s node capacity; WDM channel; cascaded WDM network nodes; counter-propagating SOA wavelength converters; integrated wavelength-selective router; minimal eye diagram degradation; negligible penalty all-optical routing; overall penalty; Continuous wavelet transforms; Glass; Laser beams; Laser modes; Laser stability; Optical surface waves; Power lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676219

Filename

676219