Title :
Scalability study of SOA based optical switch for optical packet networks
Author :
Zsigmond, Szilárd ; Furukawa, Hideaki ; Wada, Naoya
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Telecommun. & Media Inf., Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Budapest, Hungary
Abstract :
We investigate the scalability of a SOA based optical switch for optical packet-switched system. By extensive simulations, based on the expected switch parameters, a consecutive switch limit of 14 or 9 is demonstrated.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical switches; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; SOA based optical switch; WDM; optical packet networks; packet-switched system; scalability study; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength division multiplexing; Decision support systems; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Scalability; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; OPS; SOA; WDM;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching, 2009. PS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pisa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3857-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3856-3
DOI :
10.1109/PS.2009.5307834
