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Photonic Provisioning Using a Packaged SOI Hybrid All-Optical Wavelength Converter in a Meshed Optical Network Testbed

We demonstrate path wavelength routing and switching using a packaged and pigtailed hybrid integrated silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photonic circuit. The fabricated device incorporates a 1.25 mm nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifier mounted on the SOI board and two multimode interference-based casc...

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Published in:Journal of lightwave technology 2012-09, Vol.30 (18), p.2941-2947
Main Authors: Stamatiadis, C., Kalavrouziotis, D., Pagano, A., Morro, R., Riccardi, E., Stampoulidis, L., Voigt, K., Preve, G. B., Moerl, L., Kreissl, J., Landles, K., Duffy, S., Avramopoulos, H., Zimmermann, L., Petermann, K.
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Summary:We demonstrate path wavelength routing and switching using a packaged and pigtailed hybrid integrated silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photonic circuit. The fabricated device incorporates a 1.25 mm nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifier mounted on the SOI board and two multimode interference-based cascaded delay interferometers monolithically integrated on the same SOI substrate. The photonic chip has a footprint of 384 mm 2 and performs all-optical wavelength conversion at ultrafast data rates. The packaged and pigtailed module is inserted and tested as a switching node in a meshed optical network testbed carrying real data traffic and encompassing a wavelength division multiplexing optical link. Optical path wavelength switching and routing is implemented by a generalized multiprotocol label switching control plane. We present 10 GbE video-streaming routing as well as 40 Gb/s wavelength switching employing the system integrated all-optical wavelength converter. Error-free transmission and different kind of end-to-end services (video distribution, audio conference, and video conference) have been successfully evaluated.
ISSN:0733-8724
1558-2213
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2012.2209172