Field trial of 160 Gb/s all-optical packet switching

Liu, Y., Herrera, J., Raz, O., Tangdiongga, E., Marti, J., Ramos, F., Maxwell, G., Poustie, A., Mulvad, H. C.H., Hill, M. T., De Waardt, H., Khoe, G. D., Koonen, A. M.J. and Dorren, H. J.S. (2007) Field trial of 160 Gb/s all-optical packet switching. In Optoelectronic Materials and Devices II. vol. 6782, SPIE.. (doi:10.1117/12.754456).

Abstract

We present the results of a transmission experiment, over 110 km of field installed fiber, for an all-optical 160 Gb/s packet switching system. The system uses in-band optical labels which are processed entirely in the optical domain using a narrow-band all-optical filter. The label decision information is stored by an optical flip-flop, which output controls a high-speed wavelength converter based on ultra-fast cross-phase modulation in a single semiconductor optical amplifier. The packet switched node is located in between two different fiber sections, each having a length of 54.3-km. The field installed fibers are located around the city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The results show how the all-optical switch can effectively route the packets based on the optical information and that such packets may be transmitted across the fiber with an acceptable penalty level.

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Contributors

Author: H. C.H. Mulvad

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