Title :
Demonstration of compact hierarchical optical path cross-connect utilizing wavelength/waveband selective switches
Author :
Mitsui, S. ; Hasegawa, H. ; Sato, K. ; Kamei, S. ; Takahashi, H. ; Okuno, Masayuki
Author_Institution :
Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan
Abstract :
We demonstrate a compact wavelength/waveband selective switch based hierarchical optical cross-connect (HOXC) system for the first time. Its performance confirms that the HOXC will be applied to create cost-effective metro-core and metro-edge ring interconnections.
Keywords :
optical switches; HOXC system; compact wavelength-waveband selective switch; cost-effective metrocore interconnections; hierarchical optical cross-connect system; metroedge ring interconnections; Communication switching; Integrated circuit interconnections; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Optical switches; Propagation losses; Prototypes; Telecommunication traffic; Transmission line matrix methods;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
