MOSAIC a multiwavelength optical subcarrier multiplexed controlled network.

The experimental demonstration of MOSAIC, a reconfigurable WDM add/drop network with subcarrier multiplexed control, is presented. The MOSAIC network implements the optical layer protocol to support bit-rate transparent multichannel lightpaths. Two types of add/drop multiplexers are implemented and...

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Published in:	IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 16, 7 (1998).
Main Author:	Gaudino, R.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	1.2 Gbit/s. 2.5 Gbit/s. MOSAIC network. SNR. Acoustooptic filter switch crossconnect. Amplified spontaneous emission. Amplitude noise. Analog optoelectronic crossconnect. Bit error rate. Bit-rate transparent multichannel lightpaths. Cascaded 2R optoelectronic regeneration. Cascaded multichannel optical switching. Channel equalization. Channel state monitoring. Digital network control. Experimental demonstration. Fast digitally tunable laser transmitter. High signal-to-noise ratio. Jitter accumulation. Laser array transmitter. Multihop lightpaths. Multiwavelength optical subcarrier multiplexed controlled network. Optical layer protocol. Reconfigurable WDM add/drop network. Reconfigurable add/drop multiplexer. Subcarrier multiplexed control. Wavelength translation.