SC103 Dynamic ROADMs, Switches and Integrated Technologies and Techniques for Dynamically Reconfigurable and Packet Switched Optical Networks

Sunday, March 22, 2009
4:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Daniel Blumenthal; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Level: Advanced Beginner (basic understanding of topic is necessary to follow course material)

Course Description

Advances in dynamic optical switching technology include ROADMs, tunable transmitters, burst mode receivers and other technologies that support real-time reconfiguration of optical networks. Dynamic optical circuit, packet switched and burst approaches will drive the requirement for faster optical routing, new signaling techniques, data rate and format transparency, and new approaches to network state and channel monitoring. This course provides an overview of dynamic WDM optical networks, techniques and architectures, functional building blocks, and underlying component technologies. Building blocks that will be covered include dynamic ROADMs, photonic switches and routers, fast tunable transmitters, wavelength converters and lasers, burst mode receivers, all-optical regenerators, optical label swapping and packet/burst switches, underlying optical buffer technologies and optical performance monitoring. Several examples of today's state-of-the-art research systems and their potential integration into future networks will be described.

Benefits and Learning Objectives

This course should enable you to:

• Evaluate technologies in designing and deploying optical networks and future burst and packet switch technologies.
• Evaluate and design different approaches for optical network architectures and design principles.
• Decide which technologies are applicable to designing reconfigurable optical networks.

Intended Audience

Knowledge of basic engineering principles and network principles will be useful. Basic knowledge of fiber optics is also of use.

Biography

Daniel Blumenthal is a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University  of California at Santa Barbara and director of the LASOR center. He is a co-founder of Calient Networks and Packet Photonics. He has co-authored more than 300 papers in the field of optical networks and related technologies and co-authored the book Tunable Laser Diodes and Related Optical Sources (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2nd Edition, January 2005). He is a member of the NLR Board of Directors and holds a Research Seat on the Internet 2 Architecture and Operations Advisory Council. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and OSA, and recipient of a PECASE Award, an NSF NYI Award, and an ONR YIP Award. He has served as an associate editor for IEEE PTL and IEEE Transactions on Communications, as a guest editor for IEEE JLT, JTSQE, and on numerous conference technical program committees.