Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 206-214 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2011 |