Survey of photonic switching architectures and technologies in support of spatially and spectrally flexible optical networking

DM Marom, PD Colbourne, A D'errico… - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As traffic volumes carried by optical networks continue to grow by tens of percent year over
year, we are rapidly approaching the capacity limit of the conventional communication band …

Thermally-reconfigurable silicon photonic devices and circuits

Y Xie, Y Shi, L Liu, J Wang, R Priti… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable photonic integrated devices and circuits are very important for many
applications. Among various mechanisms for realizing reconfigurability, thermo-optic effect …

Picosecond optical pulse processing using a terahertz-bandwidth reconfigurable photonic integrated circuit

Y Xie, L Zhuang, AJ Lowery - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
Chip-scale integrated optical signal processors promise to support a multitude of signal
processing functions with bandwidths beyond the limit of microelectronics. Previous …

Ultra-dense wavelength switched network: A special EON paradigm for metro optical networks

G Shen, Y Zhang, X Zhou, Y Sheng… - IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intensive video and cloud computing services are putting much pressure on metro networks
to meet stringent requirements such as low latency, low power consumption, and high …

Self-Configuring GHz-Scale Multichannel Silicon Photonic Filter Using a Resonator-Assisted Discrete-Fourier-Transform Interferometer

Y Xie, H Yan, Z Yu, L Zhuang, D Dai - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Reconfigurable multichannel optical filters (MOFs) with a high resolution are key devices for
high-spectral-efficiency multi-carrier optical transmission systems. However, very few on …

Cost-effective spatial super-channel allocation in Flex-Grid/MCF optical core networks

R Rumipamba-Zambrano, J Perelló, JM Gené… - Optical Switching and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) is a key technology to cope with the bandwidth
limitations of single mode fibers. Multi-Core Fibers (MCFs) are considered as a promising …

Sub-GHz resolution photonic spectral processor and its system applications

R Rudnick, A Tolmachev, D Sinefeld… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
A record performance metric waveguide grating router (WGR) design with a 200 GHz free
spectral range (FSR) capable of resolving sub-GHz resolution spectral features is developed …

Flexible optical cross-connects for high bit rate elastic photonic transport networks

M Song, E Pincemin, A Josten, B Baeuerle… - Journal of Optical …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present here the work performed in the EU-funded flexible optical cross-connect (FOX-
C) project, which investigates and develops new flexible optical switching solutions with …

Selectable-FSR 10-GHz granularity WDM superchannel filter in a reconfigurable photonic integrated circuit

Y Xie, Z Geng, D Kong, L Zhuang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a 10-GHz granularity reconfigurable WDM superchannel filter in a photonic
integrated circuit. The filter uses a ring-resonator-assisted tapped-delay-line topology. An …

An ultradense wavelength switched network

X Zhou, W Jia, Y Ma, N Deng, G Shen… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and investigate an ultradense wavelength switched network (UD-WSN) for
metro and regional applications. The UD-WSN provides all-optical switching and end-to-end …