摘要:
A system and method for a tunable optical delay line. The tunable optical delay line comprises a coarse delay portion that provides a coarse delay amount, the coarse delay portion including a coarse delay selection element in conjunction with a coarse delay element, the coarse delay selection element incorporated on-chip into a photonic integrated circuit (IC) component, the coarse delay element being disposed off-chip of the photonic IC component and interconnected with the coarse delay selection element; and a fine delay element that provides a fine delay amount, the fine delay element interconnected in series with the coarse delay selection element, the optical delay line being tunable to a target delay amount by agglomerating the coarse and fine delay amounts.
摘要:
A method of managing an optical communications network comprising a plurality of nodes interconnected by optical sections. The method comprises: identifying one or more pairs of adjacent DL-equipped nodes at which dummy light (DL) hardware is deployed, respective dummy light (DL) hardware being deployed at fewer than the plurality of the nodes of the optical communications network, the respective DL hardware deployed at a particular node configured to supply dummy light to each optical section extending from the particular node, and defining a respective single-section DL path between each identified pair of adjacent DL-equipped nodes; identifying one or more pairs of non-adjacent DL-equipped nodes at which DL hardware is deployed, and defining a respective multi-section DL path between each identified pair of non-adjacent DL-equipped nodes; and causing the deployed DL hardware to supply DL light to each of the single- and the multi-section DL paths.
摘要:
Transmitter, receiver, system and method for secure data communications are provided. The transmitter receives an optical signal from a signal source and transmits first and second version of the optical signal in first and second areas of an optical channel. The receiver receives first and second components of an obfuscated signal and modifies the first component before combining the modified first component and the second component to obtain a recovered optical signal.
摘要:
A monitoring and calibration apparatus for an optical networking device such as ROADM is provided. Reflectors are integrated into the device, for example at the ends of optical interconnect cables. The reflectors reflect light in specific monitoring wavelengths and pass other wavelengths such as those used for communication. A light source emits monitoring light which is reflected by the reflector and measured by a detector to measure the integrity of optical paths. The optical paths can include optical cables and cable connectors. Path integrity between different modules of the device can therefore be monitored. Multiple reflectors, reflecting light in different wavelengths, can be placed in series along the same optical path and used to monitor multiple segments of the path. A wavelength selective switch (WSS) of the device can be used to route monitoring light to different optical paths. The WSS also operates to route communication signals in the device.
摘要:
Transmitter, receiver, system and method for secure data communications are provided. The transmitter encodes data as a spatial symbol in accordance with a codebook to transmit spatially encoded data through the optical channel. The receiver detects a spatial symbol from spatially encoded data received through the optical channel, and generates a data value based on a codebook and the spatial symbol.
摘要:
The present disclosure provides short-term optical recovery systems and methods in coherent optical receivers to minimize recovery time for fault scenarios and signal reacquisition while maintaining robust signal acquisition. The short-term optical recovery systems and methods include special techniques and algorithms to minimize recovery time. The short-term optical recovery systems and methods include an expedited acquisition engine that includes a reference clock recovery, a compensator to remove chromatic dispersion, a burst framer, and a compensator to remove polarization dispersion. Importantly, the expedited acquisition engine uses a memory-oriented architecture to allow some properties of the acquisition engine to be stored during initial acquisition and, hence, later on be deployed in any fault scenario to further expedite recovery of a signal. The expedited acquisition engine leverages on a frequency aligned Local Oscillator (LO) as well as pre-calculated dispersion maps and equalizer coefficients.
摘要:
Aspects of the disclosure provide systems and methods which avoid the negative effects of Spectral Hole Burning when spectral changes are made for an optical communication system (OCS). Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods and systems which preform spectral holes for the range of wavelength channels expected to be used in the OCS. Embodiments include a configurable idle tone source for providing power to each of a set of idle tone wavelengths distributed across the spectral band used in the optical communication system. The configurable idle tone source is communicatively coupled to an output fiber of an optical network element and controlled such that optical power is present in the output optical fiber at each one of the set of idle tone wavelengths.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for routing received connection demands through a photonic switch having multiple parallel instances of a switching plane is provided. Routing respects the constraint that each cell of the switch accommodates a maximum of one lightpath. Connection demands are routed one at a time via switching plane instances where it is possible without violating the constraint. When a demand cannot be routed, a re-arrangement step is performed. A previously routed demand that conflicts with the blocked demand is identified and de-allocated. The blocked demand is then routed in place of this de-allocated demand, which is now considered blocked. The process repeats until no blocked demands remain. Attempts to route additional demands of lower priority can also be made by checking whether each lower priority demand can be routed given the configuration of the switch to route existing demands.
摘要:
There is provided methods and apparatuses for transferring photonic cells or frames between a photonic switch and an electronic switch enabling a scalable data center cloud system with photonic functions transparently embedded into an electronic chassis. In various embodiments, photonic interface functions may be transparently embedded into existing switch chips (or switch cards) without changes in the line cards. The embedded photonic interface functions may provide the switch cards with the ability to interface with both existing line cards and photonic switches. In order to embed photonic interface functions without changes on the existing line cards, embodiments use two-tier buffering with a pause signalling or pause messaging scheme for managing the two-tier buffer memories.
摘要:
A method for conveying information through an optical fiber link between a transmitter and a receiver of an optical communication system. The method includes generating, by the transmitter, a predetermined spectral change, and inserting the predetermined spectral change into an optical fiber link for transmission to the receiver. A detector associated with the receiver detects the predetermined spectral change in an optical signal received through the optical fiber link, and generates a detection signal in accordance with the detection result. The detector is independent of a digital signal processor of the receiver that is configured to recover data modulated on the optical signal received through the optical fiber link.