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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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8 Citations (Scopus)

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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