Abstract
Optical-layer restoration has been demonstrated with a wavelength-blocker (WB) -based reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM). Two 2 × 2 optical switches with a control circuit were placed before and after a WB-based ROADM to provide automatic path restoration under fiber-failure conditions. Using the proposed node configuration, a 3-node self-healing ring (SHR) network has been implemented to demonstrate the feasibility of the automatic optical-layer restoration. From the results, the restoration time was measured to be ~4 ms under fiber-failure conditions, without any additional power penalty in receiver sensitivity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 23-26 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Current Optics and Photonics |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2018 |
Keywords
- Optical-layer restoration
- Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer
- Self-healing ring network