Optical grooming switch with regenerative functionality for transparent interconnection of networks
- Vorreau, P.
- Sygletos, S.
- Parmigiani, F.
- Hillerkuss, D.
- Bonk, R.
- Petropoulos, P.
- Richardson, D.J.
- Zarris, G.
- Simeonidou, D.
- Klonidis, D.
- Tomkos, I.
- Weerasuriya, R.
- Ibrahim, S.K.
- Ellis, A.D.
- Cotter, D.
- Morais, R.
- Monteiro, P.
- Ben Ezra, S.
- Tsadka, S.
- Freude, W.
- Leuthold, Juerg
Publication date
August 2009
DOI Publisher
The Optical Society ISSN
1094-4087 Language
EnglishAbstract
We demonstrate a regenerative optical grooming switch for buffer-less interconnection of metro/access and metro/core ring networks with switching functionality in time, space and wavelength domain. Key functionalities of the router are the traffic aggregation with time-slot interchanging (TSI) functionality, the WDM-to-ODTM multiplexing and the OTDM-to-WDM demultiplexing of high-speed channel into lower bit-rate tributaries as well as multi-wavelength all-optical 2R regeneration of several higher-speed signals. BER and Q-factor measurements of different switching scenarios show excellent performance with no error floor and Q-factors above 21 dB
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