Packet-optical Add/Drop multiplexer technology: A pragmatic way to introduce optical packet switching in the next generation of metro networks
This paper describes a packet-optical add/drop multiplexer technology designed for Metro-ring networks to reduce cost and power consumption with a network efficiency comparable to a full-electronic Ethernet solution. A demonstrator including three nodes is shown.
Wavelength locking a fast-switching tunable laser
We demonstrate wavelength locking in a widely tunable fast-switching laser module that accesses 64 ITU channels with 50-GHz spacing and switches wavelength in under 50 ns. We use a Fabry-Pe/spl acute/rot etalon to stabilize the laser frequency against long-term drifts. We demonstrate locking while continuously switching with random channel schedules of 1-/spl mu/s packets. The locked frequency accuracy of /spl plusmn/3 GHz is a factor of two improvement over operation without locking. We also present the dynamics of the frequency drift due to temperature variation in the laser, and show the correlation between the frequency offsets while locking and the electrical power dissipated in the tuning sections.
Measurements of thermal frequency chirp in directly modulated DFB lasers and thermal transient induced frequency drift during fast tuning in GCSR lasers using frequency discrimination technique
Frequency deviations in a regime of high rate current fluctuations in distributed feedback (DFB) and grating coupler sample reflector (GCSR) lasers are measured using novel statistical frequency discrimination technique. Thermal time constants of the order of nanoseconds are observed in both.