Performance evaluation of wavelength exchanging in optical interconnect

Abstract

Wavelength exchanging enables data swapping between two different wavelengths simultaneously. These phenomena have been used in many applications in Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical networks such as, wavelength conversion, wavelength sampling, optical 3R, optical interconnects and optical add-drop multiplexing. One of the attractive point of research is to measure the performance of wavelength exchanging in optical interconnect. In this paper, an experimental setup of the exchanging process is presented for performance evaluation of wavelength exchanging in High NonLinear Dispersion Shifted Fiber (HNL-DSF) for efficient utilization in WDM optical inter-connect.