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.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
All optical circuits
All-optical signal processing
all-optical wavelength conversion
all-optical wavelength routing
Applied sciences
Circuit properties
Electric, optical and optoelectronic circuits
Electronics
Exact sciences and technology
hybrid photonic integration
Integrated optics
Integrated optics. Optical fibers and wave guides
Optical and optoelectronic circuits
Optical fiber communications
Optical fiber devices
Optical fiber networks
Optical fibers
Optical telecommunications
Optical wavelength conversion
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
silicon-on-insulator (SOI)
Systems, networks and services of telecommunications
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
Transmission and modulation (techniques and equipments)
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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