Optical Network Node Supporting One-to-Six WDM Multicasting of QPSK Signals

Author

Danshi Wang ; Min Zhang ; Jun Qin ; Fazong Wang ; Qian Kong ; Yueying Zhan ; Shanguo Huang ; Hongxiang Wang

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

Volume

26

Issue

16

fYear

2014

fDate

Aug.15, 15 2014

Firstpage

1641

Lastpage

1644

Abstract

The capability of multicast directly in the optical domain at the routing nodes is a target for energy saving, fast service provisioning, and effective network resource utilization. An optical network node architecture supporting wavelength conversion, unicast, and multicast is presented and a shared multicast/wavelength conversion module is designed in the intermediate node. Wavelength conversion and one-to-six WDM multicast of 25-Gb/s QPSK signals based on four-wave mixing are experimentally demonstrated using a semiconductor optical amplifier with only two pumps. All six multicast signals achieve error-free performance with a power penalty <;4.3 dB.

Keywords

multicast communication; multiwave mixing; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; quadrature phase shift keying; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; QPSK signal; bit rate 25 Gbit/s; energy saving; error-free performance; fast service provisioning; four wave mixing; network resource utilization; one-to-six WDM multicasting; optical network; quadrature phase shift keying; routing node; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength conversion; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber networks; Optical polarization; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; All-optical network; four-wave mixing; multicast; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2329700

Filename

6827908