Claims
- 1. A digital optical network bypass comprising:
an optical transport system that has at least one optical amplifier in an optical span of the network to amplify channel signals or channel band signals (collectively called channel signals); an optical digital regenerator bypass that is provided to bypass the optical amplifier; a decombiner on one side of the optical amplifier that provides for bypass of at least some of the channel signals from the optical span to the optical digital regenerator bypass; at least one digital OEO REGEN in the optical bypass to regenerate in the electrical domain the channel signals provided via the digital regenerator bypass; and a recombiner on the other side of the optical amplifier that provides for the bypassed, regenerated channel signals to be returned to the optical span.
- 2. The digital optical network bypass of claim 1 wherein said at least one digital OEO REGEN comprises a semiconductor optical receiver photonic integrated (RxPIC) chip coupled to an electronic signal regenerator coupled to a semiconductor optical transmitter photonic integrated (TxPIC) chip for, respectively, demultiplexing the channel signals and converting the channels signals into electrical channel signals, regenerating the electrical channel signals, and regenerating optical channel signals from the regenerated electrical channel signals, and thereafter multiplexing the regenerated optical channel signals into a recombined signal provided to said recombiner.
- 3. The digital optical network bypass of claim 1 wherein said optical amplifier is an optical fiber amplifier or semiconductor optical amplifier or arrays of such optical amplifiers.
- 4. The digital optical network bypass of claim 1 wherein said optical digital bypass comprises a demultiplexer and a multiplexer between which is said at least one digital OEO REGEN.
- 5. The digital optical network bypass of claim 4 wherein said at least one digital OEO REGEN comprises a semiconductor receiver photonic integrated (RxPIC) chip coupled to an signal regenerator coupled to a semiconductor transmitter photonic integrated (TxPIC) chip for, respectively, demultiplexing the optical signal channels and converting the optical channel signals into electrical channel signals, regenerating the electrical channel signals, and regenerating optical channel signals from the regenerated electrical channel signals, and thereafter multiplexing the regenerated optical channel signals into a recombined signal provided to said recombiner.
- 6. The digital optical network bypass of claim 1 wherein said optical digital bypass comprises a demultiplexer and a multiplexer between which is said at least one digital OEO REGEN and at least one semiconductor optical amplifier.
- 7. The digital optical network bypass of claim 1 wherein said optical digital bypass having at least one digital OEO REGEN and an optical analog bypass having at least one optical analog amplifier.
- 8. The digital optical network bypass of claim 7 wherein said optical analog amplifier is one or more semiconductor optical amplifiers.
- 9. The digital optical network bypass of claim 1 wherein the optical channel signals that bypass the optical amplifier are channel signals not within the gain bandwidth of the optical amplifier.
- 10. The digital optical network bypass of claim 9 wherein said at least one digital OEO REGEN comprises a semiconductor optical receiver photonic integrated (RxPIC) chip coupled to an electronic semiconductor regenerator couple to a semiconductor optical transmitter photonic integrated (TXPIC) chip for, respectively, demultiplexing the optical signal channels and converting the optical channel signals into electrical channel signals, regenerating the electrical channel signals, and regenerating optical channel signals from the regenerated electrical channel signals, and thereafter multiplexing the regenerated optical channel signals into a recombined signal provided to said recombiner.
- 11. The digital optical network bypass of claim 9 wherein the optical amplifier is an optical fiber amplifier or a semiconductor optical amplifier of an array of such amplifiers.
- 12. The digital optical network bypass of claim 1 wherein the combiner and recombiner are optical switches.
- 13. The digital optical network bypass of claim 12 wherein the optical switches are 1×N switches.
- 14. The digital optical network bypass of claim 1 wherein the channel signals that bypass the optical amplifier are signal channel bands.
- 15. The digital optical network bypass of claim 14 wherein the decombiner and recombiner are respectively a band demultiplexer and a band multiplexer.
- 16. The digital optical network bypass of claim 1 wherein the channel signals that bypass the optical amplifier are either even or odd numbered channel signals.
- 17. The digital optical network bypass of claim 16 wherein the decombiner and recombiner are respectively a deinterleaver and an interleaver.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims priority to provisional application Serial No. 60/392,494 (PP016), filed Jun. 28, 2002 and entitled, DIGITAL OPTICAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; which provisional application is incorporated herein by their reference.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60392494 |
Jun 2002 |
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