1.25 - 10 Gbit/s Reconfigurable Access Network Architecture

Author

Urban, P.J. ; Klein, E.J. ; Xu, L. ; Pluk, E. G C ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Khoe, G.D. ; de Waardt, H.

Author_Institution

COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

293

Lastpage

296

Abstract

In this paper we propose a novel reconfigurable access network architecture which enables the bidirectional transmission of 1.25 - 2.5 Gbit/s. Optical network units (ONUs) are equipped with a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) and remote nodes (RNs) are based on microring resonators - both contribute to network transparency and flexibility. We also propose ONU upgrade to serve 10 Gbit/s per end-user. Next to the theoretical description and transmission simulations some principle measurement results are presented which show the feasibility of the concept.

Keywords

multiplexing equipment; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network routing; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s to 10 Gbit/s; optical add-drop multiplexers; optical network units; reconfigurable access network; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; remote nodes; wavelength routers; Bandwidth; Network topology; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical interferometry; Optical network units; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Transmission line matrix methods; FTTx; Michelson interferometer; microring resonators; optical add-drop multiplexer; reconfigurable access network; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2007. ICTON '07. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1248-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1249-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296090

Filename

4296090