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Application of Coherent Optical Transmission Technologies to Photonic Switching Networks

Masahiko FUJIWARA, Syuji SUZUKI, Katsumi EMURA, Michikazu KONDO, Ikuo MITO, Kazuhisa KAEDE, Minoru SHIKADA, Mitsuhito SAKAGUCHI

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Photonic switching and coherent optical transmission would be key technologies for realizing future all optical broadband wide-area networks. This paper reports results of studies on integrating photonic switching systems and coherent optical transmission technologies. Introducing coherent optical transmission technologies to photonic space-division switching systems will lead to some excellent features, including line handling capacity expansion, transmission span increase and integration capability with coherent WDM/FDM broadcasting systems. Photonic wavelength-division (WD) switching systems with large number of WD channels would also be possible, with coherent optical transmission technologies. Space-division switching experiments in a 100 Mb/s optical FSK transmission system were carried out using LiNbO3 photonic switch matrices. Receiver sensitivity improvement of 7.5 dB was observed in the transmission experiments through a photonic switch matrix and long SMFs (22 km, 100 km). This allows more cascaded connection for photonic switch matrices in a photonic switching system. It was also shown that crosstalk component can be rejected at the receiver by introducing channel separation greater than 3 GHz, even when the crosstalk power is ten times larger than the desired signal. From these experimental results, a photonic SD switching system whose line capacity exceeding 500-lines and whose transmission line length was over 20 km, would be expected.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on transactions Vol.E72-E No.1 pp.55-62
Publication Date
1989/01/25
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Optical Communication

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