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

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

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)206-214
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
Volume3
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2011

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