Software-Based Burst Mode Reception Implementation for Time-domain Wavelength Interleaved Networks

Lida Sadeghioon (1, 2) , Paulette Gavignet (1) , Vincent Alaiwan (2) , Laurent Bramerie (2) , Esther Le Rouzic (1) , Jean-Luc Barbey (1) , Thierry Guillossou (1) , Eric Borgne (2) , Sébastien Lobo (2)

1 Orange Labs [Lannion]
2 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON

We demonstrate burst mode functionality on a continuous commercial receiver piloted by real-time control plane in an end-to-end sub-wavelength switching test-bed. The results show the receiver can maintain its continuous performance with marginal penalty regardless of data burst absence duration. Introduction Switching sub-wavelength entities inside the big pipes channels appears as a promising solution for the operator that has to build a network with an efficient filling and different services. Access to the sub-wavelength granularity directly at the optical layer is an alternative to electrical solution to reduce cost and power consumption by saving on electrical transit and electrical-to-optical and optical-to-electrical conversions. Amongst the various Sub-Lambda Photonically Switched Network (SLPSN) solutions, Time-domain Wavelength Interleaved Networking (TWIN) is an interesting solution since it provides optically transparent sub-wavelength grooming at intermediate/core nodes, while the intelligence and processing power remains at control plane and the edge nodes

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Optique / photonique; Optique [physics.optics]

Lida Sadeghioon, Paulette Gavignet, Vincent Alaiwan, Laurent Bramerie, Esther Le Rouzic, et al.. Software-Based Burst Mode Reception Implementation for Time-domain Wavelength Interleaved Networks. 41st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2015), Sep 2015, Valencia, Spain. ⟨10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341872⟩. ⟨hal-01228746⟩