This work focuses on the Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) problem in all-optical DWDM networks with Sparse Wavelength Conversion (SWC) capabilities. By sparse wavelength conversion, we mean that nodes within the optical network domain might or might not support optical wavelength conversion. For these nodes that support optical wavelength conversion, the number of wavelength converters m...

All optical wavelength conversion is essential in present day optical networks for transparent interoperability, contention resolution, and wavelength routing. The incorporation of all optical wavelength convertors leads to better utilization of the network resources and hence improves the efficiency of optical networks. Wavelength convertors that can work with Dispersion Managed (DM) solitons ...

Wavelength conversion has been shown as one of the key techniques that can improve the blocking performance in a wavelength-routed all-optical network. Given that wavelength converters nowadays are still very expensive, how to make effective use of the limited number of wavelength converters becomes an important issue. In this paper, we propose a novel sparse-partial wavelength conversion (SPWC...

Transparent optical multicast by multi-wavelength conversion has revealed a brand-new way for performing data multicast function directly in the optical domain without passing through any electronics. In this paper, several simultaneous multiple wavelength conversion approaches for transparent optical multicast are discussed. Technologies and methods for single-to-multiple-channel wavelength co...

In the previous 20 years, wavelength conversion has received a considerable attention due to its strong influence on the blocking performance of wavelength-routed WDM networks. In a wavelength-routed WDM network, end users communicate with one another via all-optical WDM channels. In all-optical WDM channels optical fibre is used. Optical fibre is a single, hair-fine filament drawn from molten ...

All-optical wavelength conversion of a complex (amplitude and phase) optical signal is proposed based on an all-optical implementation of time-domain holography. The temporal holograms are generated through a cross-phase modulation (XPM) process in a highly-nonlinear optical fiber, avoiding the necessity of accomplish the phase matching condition between the involved pump and probe signals, and...

In this paper, we propose a novel fuzzy-based framework for routing and wavelength assignment in alloptical DWDM backbone networks with sparse wavelength conversion capabilities. While most of the previous work in this field focuses on optical networks without wavelength conversion with full wavelength conversion capabilities, in this work we study networks with sparse wavelength conversion res...

High transport capacity optical networks, carrying information as fast as a few terabit by second, are now being developed. In this paper we discuss the major performance limiting factors imposed by each of the network’s subsystems. Optical wavelength conversion in the network’s nodes allows channel cross connecting without blocking probability. Thus, wavelength conversion based on four-wavmixi...