[WA3] Optical Network System and Architecture

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM JST(6:00 AM - 6:15 AM UTC)

[WA3-2] Experimental Demonstration of Optical-Analog-Optical Wavelength Conversion for Optical Cross-Connect

○Haruka Minami¹, Takeshi Seki¹, Tatsunori Omiya ², Toshifumi Nakamura², J. Kenji Clark², Yusuke Shimomura², Hitoshi Takeshita², Wakako Maeda², Rie Hayashi¹, Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory², Takeshi Kuwahara¹ (1. NTT Corporation (Japan), 2. NEC Corporation (Japan))

Keywords:

Optical cross-connects/add-drop multiplexers and switching subsystems Grid/cloud computing over optical networks

We experimentally show that optical-analog-optical tunable wavelength converters allow for a 2000-km-class WDM transmission with 6 wavelength conversions. The results confirm the physical feasibility of optical cross-connects incorporating the converters in the core network.