40 km passive optical metro-access ring (POMAR) including a protection scheme based on bi-directional fibers

François Dorgeuille (1) , Ludovic Noirie (1) , Arnaud Bisson (1)

1 Alcatel Research & Innovation Center

We demonstrated a 40 km passive optical metro-access ring (POMAR) including 5 nodes able to carry up to 2×(16×2.5) Gbit/s without amplification. An original 1+1 protection scheme based on bi-directional fibers was implemented, not limited by the Rayleigh back scattering.

Mots clés: optical networks; metropolitan network; optical switching; optical add-drop multiplexer

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

François Dorgeuille, Ludovic Noirie, Arnaud Bisson. 40 km passive optical metro-access ring (POMAR) including a protection scheme based on bi-directional fibers. Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003 (OFC'03), Mar 2003, Atlanta (GA), United States. pp.550-551, ⟨10.1109/OFC.2003.1248403⟩. ⟨hal-00764380⟩