Optical grooming switch with regenerative functionality for transparent interconnection of networks.
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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Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany. p.vorreau@ipq.uni-karlsruhe.de
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