All-optical serial processing in 100 Gbit/s fiber networks

Author

Islam, Mohammed N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

18-21 Nov. 1996

Firstpage

84

Abstract

The challenges and some candidate devices for ultrafast serial optical processing in all-optical fiber networks will be discussed. Our goal is to demonstrate key building blocks for a 100 Gbit/sec, time-division multiplexed, soliton ring network, which is a "light-pipe" network using fiber highways and all-optical interchanges. In particular, key enabling technologies required for reading the address on an information packet at speeds of l00 Gbit/s will be reviewed.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre networks; optical information processing; optical solitons; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 100 Gbit/s; Gbit/s fiber networks; Gbit/sec time-division multiplexed soliton ring network; TDM; all-optical fiber networks; all-optical serial processing; building blocks; information packet; review; ultrafast serial optical processing; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; High speed optical techniques; Intelligent networks; Laser modes; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical solitons; Optical transmitters; Pulsed power supplies; Pump lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1996. LEOS 96., IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3160-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1996.571561

Filename

571561