Bonk, R.,Vorreau, P.,Hillerkuss, D.,Freude, W.,Zarris, G.,Simeonidou, D.,Parmigiani, F.,Petropoulos, P.,Weerasuriya, R.,Ibrahim, S.,Ellis, A. D.,Klonidis, D.,Tomkos, I.,Leuthold, J.

2011

March

Journal Of Optical Communications And Networkingjournal Of Optical Communications And Networking

An All-Optical Grooming Switch for Interconnecting Access and Metro Ring Networks

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A regenerative all-optical grooming switch for interconnecting 130 Gbit/s on-off keying (OOK) metro/core ring and 43 Gbit/s-OOK metro/access ring networks with switching functionality in time, space, and wavelength domains is demonstrated. Key functionalities of the switch are traffic aggregation with time-slot interchanging functionality, optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) demultiplexing, and multi-wavelength 2R regeneration. Laboratory and field demonstrations show the excellent performance of the new concept with error-free signal transmission and Q-factors above 20 dB.A regenerative all-optical grooming switch for interconnecting 130 Gbit/s on-off keying (OOK) metro/core ring and 43 Gbit/s-OOK metro/access ring networks with switching functionality in time, space, and wavelength domains is demonstrated. Key functionalities of the switch are traffic aggregation with time-slot interchanging functionality, optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) demultiplexing, and multi-wavelength 2R regeneration. Laboratory and field demonstrations show the excellent performance of the new concept with error-free signal transmission and Q-factors above 20 dB.

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