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Re: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution
From: "Daniel Corbe" <dcorbe () hammerfiber com>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 19:58:56 +0000
On 8/7/2018 15:46:03, "Baldur Norddahl" <baldur.norddahl () gmail com> wrote:
HelloThere is a lack of bidirectional one fiber (BIDI) options for 40G and 100G optics. Usually BIDI is implemented using two CWDM wavelengths, one for tx and one for rx. However there is also a lack of CWDM and DWDM options for 40G and 100G.Would it be possible to use an optical circulator like this one (customized to 1310 nm)?https://www.fs.com/de/en/products/33364.htmlCombined with a traditional two fiber 1310 nm 10 km 40G QSFP module like this: https://www.fs.com/de/en/products/24422.htmlThe link distance would be 5 km.The optical circulator separates tx and rx by the direction the light travels in. It would work even though both directions use the same wavelength. There will likely be some reflection but hopefully attenuated enough that it is regarded as background noise.Has anyone done this? Any reason it would not work? Regards, Baldur
The main issue you're going to run into (especially trying to plug anything into a DWDM shelf) is 40G and 100G transceivers usually emit 4 lanes of traffic instead of a single lane like 10 and 1G optics do.
I'd imagine that's why there are so few solutions that don't involve things like OTN.
Current thread:
- optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Baldur Norddahl (Aug 07)
- Re: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Daniel Corbe (Aug 07)
- Re: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Eric Kuhnke (Aug 13)
- Re: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Ben Cannon (Aug 13)
- Re: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Eric Kuhnke (Aug 13)
- RE: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Jameson, Daniel (Aug 13)
- Re: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Ben Cannon (Aug 13)
- Re: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Brandon Martin (Aug 13)
- RE: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Jameson, Daniel (Aug 13)
- Re: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Eric Kuhnke (Aug 13)
- Re: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Jared Mauch (Aug 13)
- Re: optical circulator as a bidirectional one fiber solution Daniel Corbe (Aug 07)