Abstract:
A photonic interconnect apparatus includes tunable light devices, multiplexers to multiplex optical signals produced by the tunable light devices onto optical paths, and a cyclic arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) to receive the optical signals over the optical paths, and to direct a given optical signal of the received optical signals to a selected output of a plurality of outputs of the cyclic AWG based on a wavelength of the given optical signal. A respective demultiplexer directs the given optical signal to a selected output of a plurality of outputs of the respective demultiplexer according to which coarse wavelength band the wavelength of the given optical signal is part of.
Abstract:
The embodiments of the invention relate to an input module (IM-1, IM-2, IM-3, …, IM-N) for a switching system (RSS). The input module (IM-1, IM-2, IM-3, …, IM-N) contains at least one input port configured to receive at least one input data stream. The input module (IM-1, IM-2, IM-3, …, IM-N) further contains a processing unit configured to determine, whether a data rate of the at least one input data stream to be transmitted from the input module (IM-1, IM-2, IM-3, …, IM-N) to one of at least two output modules (OM-1, OM-2, OM-3, …, OM-N) of the switching system (RSS) via an optical transmission path by a fixed wavelength optical signal having a fixed wavelength exceeds a maximum transmission capacity of the optical transmission path. The input module (IM-1, IM-2, IM-3, …, IM-N) even further contains a packet switching module configured to switch at least first data packets of the at least one input data stream to the optical transmission path and to switch at least second data packets of the at least one input data stream to at least one further optical transmission path from the input module (IM-1, IM-2, IM-3, …, IM-N) to the one of the at least two output modules(OM-1, OM-2, OM-3, …, OM-N), when the data rate of the at least one input data stream exceeds the maximum transmission capacity. The input module (IM-1, IM-2, IM-3, …, IM-N) even further contains at least one fixed wavelength optical transmitter module configured to transmit via the optical transmission path the fixed wavelength optical signal that carryies the at least first data packets and even further contains at least one tunable wavelength optical transmitter module reconfigurable to transmit via the at least one further optical transmission path a tunable wavelength optical signal having a tunable wavelength and carrying the at least second data packets. The embodiments further relate to a central control unit(CCU)for a switching system (RSS) and to a switching system (RSS).
Abstract:
A detector remodulator (DRM) comprising a silicon on insulator (SOI) waveguide platform including: a detector coupled to a first input waveguide; a modulator coupled to a second input waveguide and an output waveguide; and an electrical circuit connecting the detector to the modulator; wherein the detector, modulator, second input waveguide and output waveguide are arranged within the same horizontal plane as one another; and wherein the modulator includes a modulation waveguide region at which a semiconductor junction is set horizontally across the waveguide; and an optoelectronic packet switch comprising: one or more switch input(s) for receiving optical packet signals; a passive optical router having input ports and output ports, the optical paths between which are wavelength dependent; a switch control unit; and a plurality of detector remodulators (DRMs) configured to receive optical signals from the one or more switch input(s) and to generate modulated optical signals for transmission to the input ports of the passive optical router, each DRM comprising: one or more detectors for converting an optical packet signal received at the one or more switch input(s) into an electrical packet signal; one or more modulators for generating the modulated optical signals, each modulator configured to: receive a wavelength tuned laser input from a tunable laser; receive the electrical packet signal from one of the detectors; and to generate a modulated optical signal at the tuned wavelength, the modulated optical signal containing the information of the electric packet signal and the tuned wavelength chosen to select a desired output port of the passive optical router for the modulated optical signal; and an electronic circuit connecting each of the one or more detectors to a corresponding modulator; wherein each of the one or more modulators is a separate component from the tunable laser that provides its wavelength tuned laser input; and wherein the switch control unit includes a scheduler which is communicably connected to the electronic circuit of each DRM; the electronic circuit configured to control the generation of the modulated optical signal by the modulator based on scheduling information received from the switch control unit.
Abstract:
An optical node (1) comprises: a plurality of client interface modules (10) comprising a client-side port (7) for receiving a client service and a segmentation block (7) for segmenting the or each received client service into a plurality of data streams (11) at predefined data rates; a plurality of WDM transponder modules (30) comprising an encapsulation block (35) for encapsulating the received data streams into transport data frames and a rate-adjustable modulated laser source (31) adapted to generate an optical signal (32) carrying the transport data frames at an adjustable transport data rate on a wavelength channel of a frequency grid; and an electrical switch module (20) comprising a plurality of client-side ports (22) for receiving the data streams (11) at the predefined data rates, a plurality of network-side ports (23) for passing the data streams (11) to the adjustable WDM transponder modules (30), and a switch matrix (21) configured to create a plurality of transmission paths adapted to pass a respective data stream from the client-side port to the network-side port.
Abstract:
Die Erfindung weist mehrere eingangsseitige wellenlängenselektive Schalter (WSSl, ..., WSS4) auf, wobei jeweils ein eingangsseitiges WDM Signal (WDMl, ..., WDM4) einem wellenlängenselektiven Schalter (WSSl, ..., WSS4) zugeführt wird, von dem mindestens ein Ausgang mit einem Eingang eines ausgangsseitigen wellenlängenselektiven Schalters (WSS5, ..., WSS8) verbunden ist, deren Ausgänge jeweils ein ausgangsseitiges WDM Signal (WDM5, ..., WDM8) abgeben. Die eingangsseitigen wellenlängenselektiven Schalter (WSSl, ..., WSS4) weisen jeweils mindestens einen weiteren Ausgang (DROPl, ..., DROP4) auf, wobei diese Ausgänge (DROPl, ..., DROP4) mit einer ersten Koppeleinrichtung (SKl) verbunden sind. Diese ist wiederum mit mehreren Transpondern (TRI, ..., TR4) verbunden, die mindestens ein gedroptes Signal abgeben. Die ausgangsseitigen wellenlängenselektiven Schalter (WSS5, ..., WSS8) weisen jeweils mindestens einen weiteren Eingang (ADDl, ..., ADD4) auf, wobei diese Eingänge (ADDl, ..., ADD4) mit einer zweiten Koppeleinrichtung (SK2) verbunden sind, die wiederum mit mehreren Transpondern (TR5, ..., TR8) verbunden ist, denen ein hinzuzufügendes Signal zugeführt wird.
Abstract:
A fiberoptic network with an optical supervisory channel in each of the optical fibers interconnecting the nodes of the network is described. Together with IP routers (10A-14A), the optical supervisory channels form a control network over which signaling and control signals are exchanged by which provisioning and restoration operations are performed at each node (10-14). To restore connections between the nodes upon a failure of the network, the control network helps to maintain at each node a synchronized database of network connections between the nodes, send messages to other nodes to initiate restoration operations by a node noticing the failure; and recalculate network connections around the failure by each node from a synchronized database at the node.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a unit for distributing and processing data packets which comprises an administrative unit that distributes the data packets to parallel processing units (Pi). The processors of adjacent processing units (Pi) are provided with intermediates (7) for exchanging data. The administrative unit distributes the data packets in accordance with administrative information provided by the data packets and/or in accordance with operational information provided by the processing units (Pi).
Abstract:
In a telecommunications system employing optical transmission, subscribers are coupled to street ONUs via twisted pair subscriber loops. Traffic is carried across each loop in a service independent digital format at a bit rate appropriate to the bandwidth of the traffic. The arrangement facilitates the introduction of new services and/or changes in a subscriber's service mix.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an optical network with a number of nodes. Information is transmitted and, respectively, received in the nodes. The information is transmitted over a number of frequencies. Receiving and, respectively, transmitting of frequencies in the nodes is variable. The information is only converted to electrical signals in those nodes where the information is retrieved. Optical signals are amplified and distributed in the network via optical splitters and amplifiers. The capacity in the network can be redistributed depending on the capacity requirement in different parts of the network.
Abstract:
An optical interconnection network comprises an optical bus (60) formed by a D-fibre (62) embedded in a thermoplastic substrate (64) with the flat of the D-fibre (62) flush with the top surface of the substrate. A module (70) similarly constructed is dimensioned to be a push fit in a wall structure (65) formed on the substrate (64) with the fibres (72) and (62) in a position to evanescently couple optical signals from one fibre to the other.