Planar lightwave circuit based reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer architectures and reusable subsystem module

Author

Earnshaw, M.P. ; Cappuzzo, M. ; Chen, E. ; Gomez, L. ; Griffin, A. ; Laskowski, E. ; Wong-Foy, A. ; Soole, J.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Volume

11

Issue

2

fYear

2005

Firstpage

313

Lastpage

322

Abstract

We describe a wide range of reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer architecture designs that may be implemented in standard silica-on-silicon planar lightwave circuits. This proven, reliable technology offers high performance and cost-effective solutions for reducing complex service provisioning in reconfigurable optical networks. Recent advances enable very flexible wavelength routing devices for mesh- and ring-based networks to be implemented on a common subsystem integration platform. We show excellent system performance at 10 Gb/s.

Keywords

integrated optics; multiplexing equipment; optical design techniques; optical fibre networks; silicon; silicon compounds; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; DWDM; SiO₂-Si; complex service provisioning; mesh-based networks; multiplexer architecture designs; optical add-drop multiplexer; planar lightwave circuit; reconfigurable multiplexer; reconfigurable optical networks; reusable subsystem module; ring-based networks; standard silica-on-silicon; subsystem integration platform; wavelength routing devices; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Circuits; Costs; Optical design; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical switches; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength routing; Integrated optics; optical communications; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTQE.2005.846542

Filename

1425466