Time stretch optical header recognition

Author

Boyraz, Özdal ; Han, Yan ; Nuruzzaman, Abul ; Jalali, Bahram

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

543

Abstract

To overcome the electronic speed limitation, all-optical packet extraction and recognition has been extensively studied. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a new method named time stretch header recognition technique, where the header is (i) optically extracted and (ii) slowed down so that it can be processed with conventional electronics running at lower speed than the data rate. A 10 Gb/s bit stream is stretched by the factor of around 20 allowing capture and processing by low speed electronics. An optical quality factor of 18 dBQ was achieved for the time-stretched header.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network routing; 10 Gbit/s; data capture; data processing; low speed electronics; optical extraction; optical quality factor; time stretch optical header recognition; Data mining; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical wavelength conversion; Signal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1252914

Filename

1252914