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Ultra-wideband Coherent Optical LANs

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. S. Forcesi

    1. Alcatel Italia S.p.A., Roma, Italy

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Part of the book series: Research Reports Esprit (ESPRIT, volume 1)

Part of the book sub series: Project 2054.UCOL (3058)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction

    • S. Forcesi
    Pages 1-1

  3. UCOL Baseline

    • A. Fioretti
    Pages 3-7

  4. UCOL Network Architecture

    • A. Bianchi, D. Capolupo, F. del Castello, A. Fantini
    Pages 9-30

  5. UCOL Optical Architecture

    • S. Forcesi, E. Neri, J. Bekooij, O. Koning
    Pages 31-38

  6. Network Extension

    • G. Veith
    Pages 40-42

  7. Experimental Results: Developed Components

    • O. Koning, G. Cowle, L. Reekie, A. Labrujere, B. Hillerich, E. Drijver et al.
    Pages 43-69

  8. Experimental Results: Implementation of a Link between Transmitter and Receiver

    • A. Labrujere, O. Koning, P. Prinz
    Pages 71-86

  9. UCOL Bibliography

    • S. Forcesi
    Pages 87-93

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 94-101
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About this book

The content of this book is the result of the work and the experiences of an interdisciplinary and strictly European group of researchers who have attempted to give birth to a new fibre communication network concept by exploiting the potential benefits of optical coherent transmission. The run towards this ambitious goal started in 1985 on the basis of the ESPRIT program incentives by an "ad hoc" consortium of industrial partners and research institutions. The first three years were dedicated to a feasibility study carried out by a reduced number of "pioneers". In 1989 the team was extended to eleven partners. There was already clear evidence of the increasing interest in Europe in exploring the actual limits of optical fibre coherent systems; the project had innovative and very advanced features that were gradually refined by incorporating the latest technological developments to which it has directly contributed. The main objective of the project targeted the development of the necessary building blocks to show experimentally the performance and the flexibility built into the proposed concept of multi-channel ultra-wideband network. The system concept developed within this project associates optical frequency division multiplexing with a suitable network architecture and management techniques to allow very high flexibility and efficiency in handling simultaneous transmission over the network (on each optical frequency) of multiple virtual channels each operating with a wide range of information rates ranging from a fraction of a Mb/s up to a maximum value in excess of 160 Mb/s.

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  • Alcatel Italia S.p.A., Roma, Italy

    S. Forcesi

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