Optical filters are the heart of optical networks; without the wavelength selective device wavelength division multiplexing and dense wavelength division multiplexing network will not exist. As the networks are progressing towards closer wavelength spacing, performance requirement for filters are becoming more demanding. Currently, the popular filters include gratings, thin-film filters, and Fa...

Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract The Link Management Protocol (LM...

Dropping of Information Communication Technology (ICT) based applications and facilities due to cable cuts failures in optical backbones leads to loss of many resources and opportunities. Therefore, resilience is an important issue toward reliable next generation networks which is a complicated designing issue and known to be an NP-hard problem. This paper presents an intelligent particle swarm...

The Input-Buffered Wavelength-Routed (IBWR) switch is a promising switching architecture for slotted Optical Packet Switching (OPS) networks. The benefits of the IBWR fabric are a better scalability and lower hardware cost, when compared to output buffered OPS proposals. A previous work characterized the scheduling problem of this architecture as a type of matching problem in bipartite graphs. ...

The evolution of broadband services will depend on the widespread deployment of optical networks. The deployment of such networks will, in turn, help drive increased demand for additional capacity. In this world, service providers will have a growing need to be able to flexibly adjust capacity to accommodate uncertain and growing demand. In this article, we present a cost model that highlights ...

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing is gaining attention in both scientific research areas and engineering applications thanks to its distinguishing advantages including wavelength multiplexing capability, miniature size, high sensitivity, immunity from electro-magnetic interference, etc. FBG sensing is based on the detection of the shifted Bragg wavelength of the light reflected by a fiber grati...

-------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT-----------------------------------------------------------------In the present paper, we have proposed Radio over fiber (ROF) technology which allows radio frequency (RF) transmission directly over the optical fiber has attracted much attention due to its promising performance and operational cost reduction. The well kn...

<span>This paper exemplifies dense wavelength division multiplexing combined with polarization C-band frequency range-based single-mode fiber. In the proposed link, 32 independent channels 16 individual wavelengths are multiplexed two different angles of polarization. Each carrying 130 Gbps dual-polarization data 200 GHz channel spacing claiming a net transmission rate 4.16 Tbits/s spectr...

Photonic network-on-chip (PNoC) architectures employ photonic links with dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) to enable high throughput on-chip transfers. Unfortunately, increasing the DWDM degree (i.e., using a larger number of wavelengths) achieve higher aggregated data rate in and, hence, PNoCs, requires sophisticated and costly laser sources along extra hardware. This hardware can ...