Title :
160-Gb/s all-optical MEMS time-slot switch for OTDM and WDM applications
Author :
Pau, Stanley ; Yu, Jianjun ; Kojima, Keisuke ; Chand, Naresh ; Swaminathan, Venkataraman
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The authors propose and successfully demonstrate a novel, simple, and low-cost concept of optical time-slot switching, i.e., switching part of one 160-Gb/s optical time-division multiplexing channel to another 160 Gb/s channel all in the optical domain without any optical-electrical-optical conversion and with negligible power penalty.
Keywords :
micro-optics; photonic switching systems; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 160 Gbit/s; 64 by 64 MEMS-based switch; OTDM applications; WDM applications; all-optical MEMS time-slot switch; low-cost concept; negligible power penalty; optical cross connect; optical domain; optical time-division multiplexing channel; Bit rate; Delay lines; Micromechanical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical pulse generation; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2002.802082
