All-optical nonblocking terabit/s crossconnect based on low power all-optical wavelength converter and MEMS switch fabric

13 November 2002

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 4, PD16-P1
https://doi.org/10.1109/ofc.2001.927550

Abstract

All-optical nonblocking routing of 80 10 Gb/s C-band channels is demonstrated with a 100/spl times/100 optical crossconnect. The enabling technology is a channel equalizing low-power wavelength converter operating with -14 dBm input power such that no single channel amplification is needed.

Keywords

OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERSION
FABRICS
OPTICAL SENSORS
WAVELENGTH CONVERSION
MICROSWITCHES
WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING
PROPAGATION DELAY
OPTICAL SWITCHES
OPTICAL INTERCONNECTIONS
WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS