Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1998.676219
