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All-Optical Network Consortium-ultrafast TDM networks

1996; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 14; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/49.510923

1558-0008

R.A. Barry, Vincent W. S. Chan, K.L. Hall, E. S. Kintzer, John D. Moores, K.A. Rauschenbach, Eric A. Swanson, Laura E. Adams, C.R. Doerr, S.G. Finn, H. A. Haus, Erich P. Ippen, William S. Wong, M. Haner,

Advanced Optical Network Technologies

We describe recent results of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) sponsored Consortium on Wideband All-Optical Networks which is developing architectures, technology components, and applications for ultrafast 100 Gb/s time-division multiplexing (TDM) optical networks. The shared-media ultrafast networks we envision are appropriate for providing low-access-delay bandwidth on demand to both future high-burst rate (100 Gb/s) users as well aggregates of lower-rate users (i.e., a heterogeneous user population). To realize these goals we are developing ultrafast network architectures such as HLAN, described here, that operate well in high-latency environments and require only limited processing capability at the ultrafast bit rates. We also describe results on 80-Gb/s, 90-km soliton transmission, 100-Gb/s soliton compression laser source technology, picosecond short-pulse fiber ring lasers, picosecond-accuracy optical bit-phase sensing and clock recovery, all-optical injection-locked fiber figure-eight laser clock recovery, short-pulse fiber loop storage, and all-optical pulse width and wavelength conversion.