Future high-capacity optical telecommunication networks

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Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Bayvel Polina 2000Future high-capacity optical telecommunication networksPhil. Trans. R. Soc. A.358303–329http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2000.0533SectionRestricted accessFuture high-capacity optical telecommunication networks Polina Bayvel Polina Bayvel Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK () Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Polina Bayvel Polina Bayvel Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK () Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Published:15 January 2000https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2000.0533AbstractSince their first introduction in the late 1980s, long–distance optical–fibre trans1 mission systems have advanced from transmission speeds of 140 Mbit s–1 for the first optical transatlantic system to exceed 1 Tbit s–1 (1 Tbit s–1 = 1012 bit s –1) in just 10 years! Laboratory demonstrations of optical transmission at 100 Gbit s –1 per channel and use of over 132 channels in a singe fibre are in progress, in the attempt to tap into the huge bandwidth of optical fibres. These developments, in combination with enormous growth in data and voice traffic, have led to many new research ideas for the design of conceptually different high–capacity optical telecommunication networks for the future. This paper reviews some of the dramatic technological developments in architectures, systems and devices, and discusses the ideas of how best to exploit the fibre bandwidth for transmission and processing of information. Previous ArticleNext Article VIEW FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD PDF FiguresRelatedReferencesDetailsCited by Carroll P and McGarraghy S (2012) A decomposition algorithm for the ring spur assignment problem, International Transactions in Operational Research, 10.1111/j.1475-3995.2012.00867.x, 20:1, (119-139), Online publication date: 1-Jan-2013. Klofaï Y, Essimbi B and Jäger D (2011) Long-distance pulse propagation on high-frequency dissipative nonlinear transmission lines/resonant tunneling diode line cascaded maps, Physica Scripta, 10.1088/0031-8949/84/04/045803, 84:4, (045803), Online publication date: 1-Oct-2011. Carroll P, Fortz B, Labbé M and McGarraghy S (2011) Improved Formulations for the Ring Spur Assignment Problem Network Optimization, 10.1007/978-3-642-21527-8_4, (24-36), . Thompson A, Seigneur H, Leuenberger M and Schoenfeld W Optical Switching Based on the Conditional Faraday Effect With Electron Spins in Quantum Dots, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 10.1109/JQE.2009.2013141, 45:6, (637-645) Hinton K, Raskutti G, Farrell P and Tucker R Switching Energy and Device Size Limits on Digital Photonic Signal Processing Technologies, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.916242, 14:3, (938-945) Kamal A Algorithms for multicast traffic grooming in WDM mesh networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, 10.1109/MCOM.2006.248171, 44:11, (96-105) Pyajt A, Andreeva O and Bespalov V (2006) Dynamic holograms recording in fullerene-containing solid-state matrices: Porous glass slides and PMMA films, Optics Communications, 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.09.041, 259:2, (562-568), Online publication date: 1-Mar-2006. Shepherd F and Vetta A (2004) Lighting Fibers in a Dark Network, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 10.1109/JSAC.2004.833850, 22:9, (1583-1588), Online publication date: 1-Nov-2004. Zirngibl M (2002) Applications for Optical Switch Fabrics Optical Fiber Telecommunications IV-A, 10.1016/B978-012395172-4/50008-5, (374-404), . Mutafungwa E and Halme S (2001) On the use of optical spreading codes to design DWDM systems with reduced FWM crosstalk, Optics Communications, 10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01526-7, 198:4-6, (339-350), Online publication date: 1-Nov-2001. This Issue15 January 2000Volume 358Issue 1765Theme Issue ‘Science into the next millennium: young scientists give their visions of the future I. Astronomy and Earth sciences’ compiled by J. M. T. Thompson Article InformationDOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2000.0533Published by:Royal SocietyPrint ISSN:1364-503XOnline ISSN:1471-2962History: Published online15/01/2000Published in print15/01/2000 License: Citations and impact Keywordstelecommunicationsoptical fibresoptical communicationswavelength division multiplexing (WDM)