Strictly non-blocking all-optical-cross-connect demonstrator for WDM wavelength...

• Author(s): André, P. S. ; Pinto, J. L. ; Teixeira, A. J. ; Pinto, A. Nolasco ; Almeida, T. ; Morgado, F. ; Pousa, M.
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/5955
• Origin: RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

In this paper, we assess the design and performances of a strictly non-blocking all-optical cross-connect demonstrator node for WDM wavelength path networks. The all-optical cross-connect (AOXC) prototype was experimentally tested in a small 2 x 2 WDM network with a STM-16 bit stream per channel. The single and cascaded performance of the AOXC was also simulated and its results were validated with the experimental ones.