Title :
10 Gbit/s/port and 256 ports optical crossbar switch with reduced hardware and enhanced modularity
Author :
Maeno, Yoshiharu ; Suemura, Yoshihiko ; Kitamura, Shotaro ; Henmi, Naoya
Author_Institution :
Opto-Electron. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a novel architecture of a 256×256 optical crossbar switch with optical components reduced to one eighth, large modularity and improved loss budget. We demonstrate its feasibility by a transmission experiment of 10 Gbit/s signals with a sensitivity penalty below 1 dB
Keywords :
wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 256×256 optical crossbar switch; Gbit/s signals; WDM switching networks; enhanced modularity; improved loss budget; large modularity; optical components; optical crossbar switch; optical fibre networks; reduced hardware; sensitivity penalty; transmission experiment;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-697-0
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19971491
