Title :
Development of a 640-Gbit∕s∕port Optical Packet Switch Prototype Based on Wide-Colored Optical Packet Technology
Author :
Furukawa, Hideaki ; Wada, Naoya ; Harai, Hiroaki ; Miyazaki, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Tokyo, Japan
fDate :
8/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We developed, for the first time to our knowledge, a 640-Gbit/s/port optical packet switch prototype consisting of multiple optical label processors, polarization-independent plomb lanthanum zirconate titanate waveguide optical switches, optical fiber-delay-line buffers, and a parallel pipeline buffer manager. We achieved the error-free switching and buffering operation with bit error rates of less than 10-9 for 640 (64 wavelengths times10) Gbit/s wide-colored optical packets by the prototype. This demonstration shows the potential of high performance per energy of an optical packet switch.
Keywords :
lanthanum compounds; lead compounds; optical delay lines; optical fibre communication; optical switches; optical waveguides; packet switching; PbLaZrO3TiO3; bit error rates; error-free switching; multiple optical label processors; optical fiber-delay-line buffers; optical packet switch; parallel pipeline buffer manager; waveguide optical switches; Knowledge management; Lanthanum; Optical buffering; Optical fiber polarization; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Pipelines; Prototypes; Titanium compounds; Multiple optical label processor; Optical buffer; Optical packet switching; Parallel pipeline buffer manager; Plomb lanthanum zirconate titanate optical switch; WDM-based optical packet;
Journal_Title :
Optical Communications and Networking, IEEE/OSA Journal of
DOI :
10.1364/JOCN.1.000B30
