Development of optical packet and circuit integrated ring network testbed

• Published in: Optics express Vol. 19; no. 26; pp. B242 - B250
• Main Authors: Furukawa, Hideaki, Harai, Hiroaki, Miyazawa, Takaya, Shinada, Satoshi, Kawasaki, Wataru, Wada, Naoya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 12.12.2011

We developed novel integrated optical packet and circuit switch-node equipment. Compared with our previous equipment, a polarization-independent 4 × 4 semiconductor optical amplifier switch subsystem, gain-controlled optical amplifiers, and one 100 Gbps optical packet transponder and seven 10 Gbps o...