Towards all optical DCI networks

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2020.w2a.33
• Publication Date: 2020-03-06T14:29:51Z
• Authors: Ginni Khanna; Shengxiang Zhu; Mark Filer; Christos Gkantsidis; Francesca Parmigiani; Thomas Karagiannis
• Keywords: Control reconfiguration; Optical cross-connect; Transient (computer programming); Optical Transport Network; Data center

We propose and experimentally demonstrate an all-optical architecture for data center interconnect networks with reconfiguration times of a few seconds. Filtering amplification transient effects have minimal impact on BER performance.