A photonic frame switching system may include a main controller and at least one photonic frame wrapper line card. The main controller may determine a point in time at which a photonic frame wrapper line card transmits a photonic frame by allocating a time slot to the photonic frame wrapper line card. When the photonic frame switching system includes a plurality of photonic frame wrapper line cards, points in times at which the plurality of photonic frame wrapper line cards transmits the photonic frames may be synchronized. In particular, when a portion of the plurality of photonic frame wrapper line cards transmit a plurality of photonic frames having different destinations, points in times at which all of the plurality of photonic frame wrapper line cards transmits the photonic frames may be adjusted based on a latency by a destination change.

An optical signal module including a driver and an optical signal module. The driver includes a differential pair configured to receive and process an input signal to create a drive signal. A modulation current source provides a modulation current to the differential pair. One or more termination resistors connected to the differential pair for impedance matching. A first switch, responsive to a first control signal, maintains charge on a charge storage device. The optical signal module includes an optical signal generator arranged between a supply voltage node and a bias current node. The optical signal generator receives the drive signal and generates an optical signal representing the input signal. A second switch is between a supply voltage node the bias current node. The second switch, responsive to second control signal, selectively establishes a short between the supply voltage node the bias current node.

A central node for digital subscriber line access multiplex. The central node supports a plurality of subscriber devices and comprises: a digital interface for upstream communication; a converter device for each one of the subscriber devices wherein each converter device comprises an A/D, analogue to digital, converter and a D/A, digital to analogue, converter; an analogue optical interface for communication of analogue signals for all of the subscriber devices with an intermediate distribution node for digital subscriber line access multiplex; a digital multiplexer/demultiplexer connected between the digital interface and the plurality converter devices; an analogue multiplexer/demultiplexer connected between the analogue optical interface and the plurality of converter devices; and a control signal generator connected to the analogue multiplexer/demultiplexer, wherein the control signal generator is arranged to generate an analogue control signal for controlling time division duplex operation at the intermediate distribution node.

The invention relates to an optoelectronic transceiver device comprising a first optical connector (OC1) capable of connection to a first bidirectional optical fiber (OF1), and a second optical connector (OC2) capable of connection to a second bidirectional optical fiber (OF2), the device further comprising: an insertion-extraction module (ADM) capable of: extracting a wavelength (?.sub.Rx) from a plurality of wavelengths constituting a first optical signal received by the first optical connector (OC1) and transmitting the first optical signal without the extracted wavelength to the second optical connector (OC2); inserting a wavelength (?.sub.Tx) into a second optical signal received by the second optical connector (OC2) and transmitting the second optical signal with the inserted wavelength to the first optical connector (OC1); an electric-optical conversion module (EC1) capable of providing the insertion-extraction module with the wavelength (?.sub.Tx) inserted into the second optical signal from an incoming electric signal (Data Tx); and an optical-electric conversion module (EC2) capable of converting the wavelength (?.sub.Rx) extracted from the first optical signal by the insertion-extraction module into an outgoing electric signal (Data Rx).

An optoelectronic switch for transferring a signal from an input device for an output device, the optoelectronic switch including: a plurality of leaf switches, each having a radix R, and arranged in an L-dimensional array, in which the i-th dimension has a size R.sub.i where (i=1, 2, . . . , L) and for a reduced dimension, R.sub.i is less than for all of the other dimensions, each leaf switch having an associated L-tuple of coordinates (x.sub.1, . . . , x.sub.L) giving its location with respect to each of the L dimensions; wherein each leaf switch is a member of L sub-arrays, each of the L sub-arrays associated with a different one of the L dimensions, and including: a plurality of R.sub.i leaf switches whose coordinates differ only in respect of the i-th dimension, each leaf switch having C client ports for connecting to an input device or an output device.

The present disclosure discloses a method and device for channel switching, an Optical Network Unit (ONU) and a system for Time Wavelength Division Multiplexing (TWDM). The method for channel switching includes that: an ONU acquires channel information of a first TWDM channel, wherein the channel information of the first TWDM channel is used for indicating an uplink wavelength and/or downlink wavelength of the first TWDM channel; and the ONU tunes the uplink wavelength and/or downlink wavelength of the ONU into the uplink wavelength and/or downlink wavelength of the first TWDM channel according to the channel information of the first TWDM channel. By means of the present disclosure, the problem of high cost caused by specially building a standby channel for each TWDM channel in a system for TWDM Passive Optical Network (PON) to provide service protection is solved, and the cost of deploying the TWDM PON system is reduced.

A photonic frame switching system may include a main controller and at least one photonic frame wrapper line card. The main controller may determine a point in time at which a photonic frame wrapper line card transmits a photonic frame by allocating a time slot to the photonic frame wrapper line card. When the photonic frame switching system includes a plurality of photonic frame wrapper line cards, points in times at which the plurality of photonic frame wrapper line cards transmits the photonic frames may be synchronized. In particular, when a portion of the plurality of photonic frame wrapper line cards transmit a plurality of photonic frames having different destinations, points in times at to which all of the plurality of photonic frame wrapper line cards transmits the photonic frames may be adjusted based on a latency by a destination change.

An L-dimensional optoelectronic switch for transferring an optical signal from an input device to an output device, the optoelectronic switch includes: a plurality of leaf switches, each having a radix R, and arranged in an L-dimensional array, in which each dimension i has a respective size R.sub.i (i=1, 2, . . . , L), each leaf switch having an associated L-tuple of co-ordinates (x.sub.1, . . . , x.sub.L) giving its location with respect to each of the L dimensions; wherein each leaf switch is a member of L sub-arrays, each of the L sub-arrays associated with a different one of the L dimensions, and including: a plurality of R.sub.i leaf switches, whose co-ordinates differ only in respect of the i.sup.t dimension, each leaf switch having C client ports for connecting to an input device or an output device, and F fabric ports for connecting to spine switches; a plurality of S.sub.i spine switches, each having R fabric ports for connecting to the fabric ports of the leaf switches, and wherein, in a given sub-array each leaf switch in the sub-array is connected to each spine switch via an optical active switch.

A spectral-temporal connector interconnects a large number of nodes in a full-mesh structure. Each node connects to the spectral-temporal connector through a dual link. Signals occupying multiple spectral bands carried by a link from a node are de-multiplexed into separate spectral bands individually directed to different connector modules. Each connector module has a set temporal rotators and a set of spectral multiplexers. A temporal rotator cyclically distributes segments of each signal at each inlet of the rotator to each outlet of the rotator. Each spectral multiplexer combines signals occupying different spectral bands at outlets of the set of temporal rotators onto a respective output link. Several arrangements for time-aligning all the nodes to the connector modules are disclosed.

An optical switching control method and apparatus. The method includes generating an optical switching path corresponding to a destination node of service traffic flowing from an external service network, generating an optical frame corresponding to the generated optical switching path, transmitting, to a control server, a request message for requesting an allocation of a time slot to transmit the generated optical frame, generating an optical signal having a predetermined wavelength to transmit the optical frame in response to an admission message being received as a result of admission with respect to the request message, and transferring the optical frame to the destination node based on the optical switching path using the generated optical signal.