• DocumentCode
    2014930
  • Title

    Effects of cumulative PDG on the scalability of SOA-based optical packet switching networks

  • Author

    Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile ; Bergman, Keren ; Borodisky, Misha ; Brodsky, Misha

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    5-10 March 2006
  • Abstract
    Using a re-circulating loop we study the extreme cases of cumulative PDG in SOA-based packet switching nodes. We show that node polarization dependence could limit the physical layer scalability of optical packet switching networks.
  • Keywords
    light polarisation; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; node polarization; optical packet switching networks; physical layer scalability; Communication switching; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Optical packet switching; Optical polarization; Packet switching; Scalability; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-803-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2006.215797
  • Filename
    1636828