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TCOM 513Optical Communications
Networks
Spring, 2007
Thomas B. Fowler, Sc.D.
Senior Principal Engineer
Mitretek Systems
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Topics for TCOM 513
Week 1: Wave Division Multiplexing Week 2: Opto-electronic networks Week 3: Fiber optic system design Week 4: MPLS Week 5: Optical control planes Week 6: The business of optical networking: economics
and finance Week 7: Future directions in optical networking
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Where we are
In TCOM 503 we discussed background and components– Physical basis for optical fiber– Types of optical fiber– Physics behind fiber optic devices– Light sources– Major classes of fiber optic devices
In TCOM 513 we will use this knowledge to build fiber optic networks– Some higher-level technologies– How to design networks– New trends– Economics and finance
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Topics to think about…
If you want to sell fiber optic technology, you can– Sell fiber– Sell lasers and other components– Sell custom-built networks– Sell standard services based on fiber optic technology
If you want to buy fiber optic technology, you can– Buy fiber and components, lay the fiber, and make your
own network– Buy a custom-made network– Buy standard services from telecom providers and
hardware from standard suppliers and rely on plug-and-play
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WDM
Overview of WDM Types of WDM How WDM works Light sources Transmission problems Amplifier issues Optical switches
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Virtual Session
End-to-End Messages
Physical
Presentation Presentation
Session Session
Network Network
Data Link Control
Data Link Control
PhysicalPhysical
Physical Link, e.g. electrical signals
Physical portion of code
Logical portion of
code
Virtual Network ServiceApplicationApplication
End-to-End PacketsTransport Transport
DLC DLC DLC DLC
NetworkNetwork
Bits
Packets
Frames
Physical Physical Physical
Originating site
Terminating site
Subnet node
Subnet node
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Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) Background
Methods available to carriers to increase capacity– Lay more fiber– Increase bit rate– Increase fiber carrying capacity of existing fiber plant
Need or desire to offer new services
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Wave Division Multiplexing Overview
Method devised to increase data carrying capacity of fiber– Takes advantage of enormous data potential of fiber
while recognizing constraints• Current electrical technology
– At 40 Gbps, time division multiplexing probably at its limit
– Increasing bit rate not feasible• Way signals originate and must be switched
Essentially a frequency division multiplexing (FDM) technology– Each data stream has its own wavelength (or frequency)
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Wave Division Multiplexing Overview (continued)
Important for several reasons– Overcomes limitations of Opto-electronic systems,
where data rates limited to 10 Gbps or 40 Gbps• Allows fiber to carry far higher data rates by
simultaneously carrying multiple 10 or 40 Gbps streams
– Allows easy segregation of data traffic– Improves security through less time division
multiplexing and demultiplexing Allows carriers to offer new, secure services
– Sell s to customers
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Structure of today’s networks
end user services
end userservices
SONET
SONET
DWDM
DWDM
SONET
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end user services
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Types of WDM Simple or Sparse
– Sometimes called “Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing” or CWDM
Dense– Denoted as DWDM
History
Source: Cisco
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Sparse WDM or CWDM Use of 2 or small number of different s on same fiber Has been employed for many years Key characteristic: use of separate bands (widely spaced s,
rather than closely spaced s in same band Can be built with commonly available components
– Wide separation means that wavelength selective couplers can be used to multiplex and demux signal
– Typically run at low data rates • Not due to technological limitations• Each can handle high data rates if desired
Full duplex system using sparse WDM
Source: Dutton
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Sample CDWM component
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Dense Wave Division Multiplexing
Uses closely spaced wavelengths– Each carries high data rate (up to 40 Gbps)– Current state of the art is ~320
• Yields 3 terabits per second at OC192• Yields 12 terabits per second at OC768
Physical layer technology– Transparently supports SONET, Ethernet, Fibre channel
and other protocols
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History of optical bandwidth
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Dense WDM (DWDM)
Functions required for DWDM– Transmitters– Signal combiners (optical multiplexer)
• Transponder– Suitable fiber– Signal separators (optical demultiplexer)– Receivers
Source: Cisco
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Point-to-point DWDM system-detailed view
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Transponder
OEO device Converts optical signal back to electrical form Does 3Rs
– Reamplification– Reshaping– Reclocking
Converts to appropriate ITU frequency for multiplexing
Source: Cisco
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Operation of transponder-based DWDM system
transmitter
Source: Cisco
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Operation of transponder-based DWDM system (continued)
Transponder accepts laser (modulated light) input from transmitters
Wavelength of each input signal mapped to DWDM wavelength
All wavelengths multiplexed together and launched onto fiber– Amplified before launch
Amplifiers, as necessary, en route to destination Amplified at receiving end Wavelength demux at receiving end
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DWDM overview (continued)
Each optical channel allocated its own wavelength– ITU separation 0.8 nm
• Closer separation means more channels but more difficulty in construction
– Actually a wavelength range within which modulated carrier must stay
– Width of channel depends on several key factors• Modulation (always 2x modulation frequency)• Stability of signal• Tolerances of all components in system
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DWDM overview (continued)
Bandwidth calculation– At 40 Gbps, signal bw ~ 80 Gbps– ITU spacing is 100 GHz ~ 0.8 nm– 1 nm spacing ~ 120 GHz– Indicates that 40 Gbps is limit for ITU spacing
• Requires extremely tight tolerances on all components
– Higher modulation rates => wider spacing => less aggregate bandwidth
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ITU grid for DWDM spacing
Source: Cisco
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Fitting optical channels into allocated wavelengths
Necessary to fit all channels into allocated wavelengths with no spillover
Source: Dutton
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Fitting optical channels into allocated wavelengths
Actually need “guard bands” to ensure separability of wavelengths on demux end
Source: Dutton
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DWDM overview (continued)
Multiplexer– Must be able to combine many signals– Y-junctions inadequate because they can only combine
2 signals at a time• Requires large number to combine ~50 or 100
signals• 3 db loss with each junction too high• Commonly done with gratings
Source: Dutton
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DWDM overview (continued)
Transmitter– Always a laser– Linewidth must fit within channel, near center
• Cannot go outside, so behavior such as chirp, drift must be small enough that it stays inside
Linewidth
Source: Dutton
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DWDM overview (continued)
Transmission and amplification– Need to control crosstalk and other problems leading to
signal degeneration– Variables that can be adjusted
• Channel separation• Channel width• Power levels
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DWDM overview (continued)
Demultiplexer– More difficult than multiplexing– Standard methods
• Reflective (Littrow) gratings• Waveguide grating routers• Circulators with in-fiber Bragg gratings• Splitters with Fabry-Perot filters
Receivers– Not so difficult as wavelengths already split– Operate up to 40 Gbps
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DWDM overview (continued)
Add/drop multiplexer– Covered in TCOM 503
– Main types• Array waveguide gratings (AWGs)• Circulators and Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs)• Mach-Zehnder Interferometers
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Sparse, DWDM on same fiber
Source: Dutton
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Source: Tektronix
Typical OSA display for DWDM
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Real-world hardware: OC-48 (2.5 Gbps) module
Source: Cisco
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Challenges in photonic and all-photonic networks
Stabilizing wavelengths– Temperature– Material ageing– Carrier density fluctuations– Chirp and other transient effects
Wavelength conversion– All-optical networks will require wavelength conversion
in some switches• Because same wavelength may be on two incoming
signals to be switched to a single output– Not yet well developed
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Challenges in photonic and all-photonic networks (continued)
Cascading filters– As signal traverses optical network, it passes through
many devices with filtering characteristics– Can give rise to unexpected effects– Network needs to be compensated for these effects
• Bandwidth• Shape• Alignment (center frequency)
Tunable lasers– Required for some proposed and current applications– Tuning times now relatively long, milliseconds– Need to go down to nanosecond range for proposed
applications
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Challenges in photonic and all-photonic networks (continued)
EDFA characteristics– Flattening gain curve– Modifying gain curve to meet particular demands
Equalizing signal power– Keeping power levels equal when signals pass through
many components– E.g., add/drop mux—added signal should leave with
about same power as others just passing through Dispersion compensation
– Chromatic– PMD
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Challenges in photonic and all-photonic networks (continued)
Optical cross-connects and switching elements– Available, but work continues– Newer devices should be considerably better
• Faster• Higher capacity
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Light sources for DWDM applications
Spectral width and linewidth– Conventional lasers produce narrow band of
wavelengths• May be large number (~20 to 30) present• Jumps among these bands randomly
– For WDM, need laser with only one line in its spectrum• Usually means Distributed Feedback laser (DFB) or
Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) laser• Other ways to accomplish this
– Linewidth requirement depends on other components in system (e.g., demultiplexer)
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Measuring linewidth with OSA
Source: Tektronix
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Light sources for DWDM applications (continued)
Wavelength stability– Extremely high degree of stability required– Drift or change of 1 nm unacceptable
• Would disrupt DWDM system• Though little effect on sparse WDM system
– Physical parameters of lasers change over time, causing drift
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Light sources for DWDM applications (continued)
Tunable and multiwavelength lasers– Tunable lasers work on principle of varying RI or
parameters of cavity– Relatively slow– Allows for fairly precise setting of center wavelength
• Manufacturing process used in ordinary lasers does not allow tight control of center wavelength
– Many are produced and tested, then labeled– Multiwavelength lasers involves synthesizing several on
same substrate, with switch to allow selection of a single one to operate
• Each as different wavelength
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Light sources for DWDM applications (continued)
Example
Difficult to produce commercially
Switch Source: Dutton
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Light sources for DWDM applications (continued)
Multiline lasers– Harness “undesirable” characteristics of F-P lasers– Large number of lines of nearly equal power below
threshold• Equally spaced• Called “Amplified spontaneous emission source” (ASE)
Stabilizing one stabilizes all
Useful range
Source: Dutton
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Light sources for DWDM applications (continued)
– Can’t modulate individual lines• Requires external modulation for each channel
– Amplifier with correct gain characteristics required to boost and equalize power of each line
Source: Dutton
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Light sources for DWDM applications (continued)
– Amplifier
– Modulation of individual lines can be done by acoustic modulator
– Not yet commercially available
Source: Dutton
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Light sources for DWDM applications (continued)
At present, most DWDM systems use separate lasers for each wavelength
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Transmission problems
Amplifier problems– Noise accumulation– Nonlinearity of gain across frequency band– Polarization dependent effects– Rapid transient power fluctuations
Dispersion– Chromatic– PMD
Nonlinearities– 4-wave mixing– Stimulated Brillouin scattering– Stimulated Raman scattering– Carrier induced phase modulation (CIP)
Polarization-dependent degradations Crosstalk
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Amplifier problems: noise
Problem is Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE)– Trivial if only a few stages– Much more serious if large number of stages– Arises because some excited erbium atoms decay to
ground state (undergo spontaneous emission) before encountering incoming photon
• Photon emitted with random phase, direction• Small proportion in direction of fiber
– Indistinguishable from signal– Amplified further
• Noise proportional to amplifier gain Ultimately limits amplifier spacing
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Amplifier problems: noise (continued) Control
– Demultiplexing gets rid of noise at non-signal wavelengths– Run amplifier in saturation so excess pump power doesn’t
end up as ASE– Filter out unwanted wavelengths
• ASE peaks at 1533 nm• Limits to this method
– Link design• Do not let signal decay to low level before amplifying
– Note that noise levels do not decay with distance, only signal
– Large amplifier gain means large ASE• Keep spacing as small as possible• Large distances may require repeater
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Amplifier noise accumulation
Roughly speaking,
– SNRoutput = SNRinput – Amplifier noise figure
• SNR = signal-to-noise ratio– Indicates that with enough amplifiers, SNR will go to 0– Modern EDFAs have noise figure ~ 3 db– If SNR starts at 30 db, can only use 10 amplifiers before
repeater necessary Modern amplifier spacing is ~ 40-80 km
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Amplifier problems: nonlinear gain
Typical gain profile
3.5 db
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Amplifier gain compensation device
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Amplifier problems: nonlinear gain (continued)
Less of a problem now– Gain flatness typically on the order of 1 db or less over
amplified range– Regeneration still required for long hauls
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Amplifier problems: polarization dependent effects
PMD Review: in SMF, light traverses fiber with two polarizations orthogonal to each other– Energy shifts between them randomly– If wave hits device which does not respond equally to the
polarizations, energy is lost• SNR goes down• Also, pulse smeared out over time, eye diagram closes
Source: Yafo Networks
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Amplifier problems: polarization dependent effects (continued)
In amplifier, gain slightly higher in orthogonal polarization (PDG)– Causes reduction in SNR of about 0.1 db– In long distance applications, can reduce SNR by 5 db
In addition, ASE is unpolarized and experiences fixed gain (PDL)
• Further reduction in SNR which varies over time• Exacerbates PMD problem
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Amplifier problems: Rapid Transient Power Fluctuations
Rapid change in system load can trigger amplifier gain changes– Amplifier stores only small amount of energy– If one channel stops, gain of other channels goes up– Transient propagated down line to other amplifiers
• Causes saturation and a period of errors which can last a few milliseconds
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Amplifier typical spec sheet
Source: Nortel
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Dispersion PMD
– Origin already discussed– Spec quoted in ps/nm/km– Example: 1500 nm wavelength, 17 ps/nm/km dispersion– Assume spectral width of 6 nm, distance 10 km
• Dispersion = 17 ps/nm/km x 6nm x 10 km = 1020 ps• At 1 Gbps, pulse is 1 ns• This would yield smearing of 102%, system would fail• 20% is usually max allowable = 200 ps• Requires dispersion on order of 2.2 ps/nm/km or
narrower spectral width
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Dispersion (continued)
– Worse with higher speeds• At 10 Gbps, pulse is 100 ps• If distance is to be 40 km, spectral width 0.2 nm, max
dispersion is 2.5 ps/nm• Yields dispersion of 20 ps
– General formula:
dispersion spec x spectral width x distance < 0.2 x 1/data rate
Modern fibers have dispersion on order of 0.5 ps/nm/km
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Chromatic dispersion
Index of refraction not constant Since index of refraction is determined by speed of light in
the medium, follows that speed of light in medium is function of – Will lead to dispersion of information bearing light
waves over distance– Called “material dispersion”
Waveguide dispersion– Light travels in both core and inner cladding at slightly
different speeds (faster in cladding) Material and waveguide dispersion opposite effects
– Can be balanced to allow for zero dispersion at a particular wavelength between 1310nm and 1650 nm
Total effect called “chromatic dispersion”
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Chromatic dispersion (continued)
Source: Corning
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Chromatic dispersion (continued)
Source: Nortel
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Nonlinearities
4-wave mixing– Problem arises when two or more waves propagate in
same direction on SMF– Signals mix to produce new signals at linear
combinations of original frequencies– Example: 2 frequencies (wavelengths): 1 and 2
• New frequencies appear at 2 1 - 2 and 22 - 1 • In WDM systems, new frequencies coincide with
frequencies already in use, appearing as noise– Effect greater with reduced channel spacing, grows
exponentially with increased signal power– Chromatic dispersion mitigates it– Can be reduced by using uneven spacing
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Nonlinearities (continued)
Source: Dutton
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Nonlinearities (continued)
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS): scattering of light backwards to transmitter
– Caused by mechanical (actually acoustical) vibrations in fiber inducing changes in RI
– In effect, fiber becomes a diffraction grating
– Mainly a problem at high power levels, narrow linewidth, small core size
• Not usually a problem if power below 5 mw
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Nonlinearities (continued)
Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS): similar to SBS– Effect originates in molecular rather than acoustical
vibrations– Primarily a problem with multiple wavelength systems at
high powers– Rule of thumb: total power x total bw < 500 GHz/W
• Example: 100 channels, spacing 200 GHz (~1.6 nm) gives total bw of 20,000 GHz
• Total power must be less than 500/20,000 = 25 mw or about 0.25 mw/channel
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Nonlinearities (continued)
Carrier-induced phase modulation (CIP)– Arises from Kerr effect
• Change in refractive index due to E field of light wave– Causes change in phase of pulse as power varies over
pulse time– Generally negligible for On-Off keyed systems
• Only a problem for systems requiring coherent detection
Cross-phase modulation– Arises from same effect, but when different signals
simultaneously present– Power induced changes from one signal affect others
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Crosstalk
Arises in devices that filter and separate wavelengths– Small proportion of power that should be in one channel
ends up in others (usually adjacent)– Major problem in WDM systems– Worse with close spacing– Figure of -30 db as minimum
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Current state-of-the-art Alcatel sent 125 channels at OC768 (40 Gbps) over 1500 km
1/8/02)– Aggregate bandwidth of 5 Tbps– Hybrid Erbium/Raman amplifiers– Figure of merit: 7.5 Pb km/sec
Bell Labs sent 64 channels at OC768 (40 Gbps) over 4,000 km (3/22/02)– Aggregate bandwidth of 2.56 Tbps– Figure of merit: 10 Pb km/sec– Used 100 km spacing of amplifiers– Raman amplifiers– Differential phase shift keying (DPSK) encoding– Optimal dispersion compensation
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Theoretical limits on fiber capacity
Work at Bell Labs suggests limit of about 100 Tb/sec– Limited by noise, interference
Current systems ~ 2 Tb/sec Lab work ~ 10 Tb/sec Not much additional work done in recent years because of
collapse of industry after 2000
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Optical switching for WDM
Optical space-division switches
4x4 switch implemented with digital optical switch elements
4x4 switch implemented with cross-connects
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Optical switching for WDM (continued)
Cross-connects can be made with technologies discussed in 503– Resonant couplers– Mach-Zehnder interferometers
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Optical switching for WDM (continued)
Resonant couplers– Normal operation: coupling length set so that signals
cross– Voltage applied: RI of waveguides changes, effectively
changing coupling length, so that crossover does not occur
Source: Dutton
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Optical switching (continued)
Optical switch is “not smart”– Switches everything on input port to output – This means all wavelengths multiplexed together
What is needed is smarter switch which can switch individual wavelengths
Called “optical switching node”– Switch any input to any output port– No OEO conversion– Bit rate and protocol independent
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Optical switching node
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Optical switching node (continued) Can also be implemented with Micro Electro-mechanical
Systems (MEMS)– Extremely tiny mirrors which can pop up and down
under electronic control• “Silicon micromirror”• Can be fabricated on chips
40 Gbps
Source: Tellium
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MEMS
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MEMS (continued)
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MEMS (continued)
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MEMS (continued)
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MEMS 3D arrays
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MEMS (continued)
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Video demo from Onix Microsystems
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Optical switching node (continued)
Main problems– May have two of same wavelength switched to same
output WDM multiplexer• Results in garbage• Not a problem in small networks with only a few
nodes– Lots of s to choose from so no duplication
– Switching done by network management software, not through internal information contained in wavelengths
• Not a router
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Optical switching node (continued)
Solution to wavelength problem: use wavelength converter to groom traffic for output WDM– Problem: wavelength converters very expensive
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Optical switching node (continued)
Most currently available switches utilize electronic fabric– Convert wavelengths to electricity, switch, then convert
back to light at needed wavelength– Examples
• Sycamore SN3000• Sycamore SN16000• Tellium• VIP V-MAN 160• Nortel
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OEO switch benefits