All-optical nonblocking terabit/s crossconnect based on low power all-optical wavelength converter and MEMS switch fabric
01 January 2001
All-optical nonblocking routing of 80 10 Gb/s C-band channels is demonstrated with a 100x100 optical crossconnect. Enabling technology is a low-power wavelength converter operating with as little as -10 dBm input power such that no single channel amplification is needed.