High-speed optical time-division-multiplexed/WDM networks and their network elements based on regenerative all-optical ultrafast wavelength converters

1 January 2004

journal article
Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of Optical Networking

Vol. 3 (2) , 100-118
https://doi.org/10.1364/jon.3.000100

Abstract

We describe an optical time-division-multiplexed (OTDM)/WDM network architecture that integrates high-speed optical time-division multiplexing at speeds of 40 Gbit/s and higher with lower-bit-rate WDM channels. An ultrafast wavelength converter is used as a regenerative multifunction building block for OTDM multiplexing, WDM-to-OTDM and OTDM-to-WDM transmultiplexing, OTDM/WDM multicasting, OTDM all-optical label read-write, and all-optical time-channel add-drop multiplexing. Subsystem design and underlying component technologies are described in detail. New results and performance measurements are shown at 40 and at 80 Gbit/s.

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