Header extraction with SOA-MZI in optical packet networks

Author

Changliu, Niu ; Min, Zhang ; Peida, Ye

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Eng., North China Univ. of Technol., China

fYear

2009

fDate

18-20 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

405

Lastpage

409

Abstract

In this paper, a novel approach based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometer (SOA-MZI) for extracting the bit-serial header from optical packet is proposed Numerical analysis and simulation show that more than 15 dB contrast ratio of the separated header at 2.5 Gbit/s to the suppressed payload at 40 Gbit/s achieved. In addition, the SOA-MZI parameters are discussed and designed to optimize the performance of the proposed scheme.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; numerical analysis; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; optical switches; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; SOA-MZI parameters; bit rate 2.5 Gbit/s; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; bit-serial header extraction approach; differential modulation scheme; numerical analysis; numerical simulation; optical packet networks; optical switching; semiconductor optical amplifier; High speed optical techniques; Optical distortion; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical wavelength conversion; Payloads; MZI; Manchester encode; SOA; XPM; differential modulation scheme;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Network & Multimedia Technology, 2009. IC-BNMT '09. 2nd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4590-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4591-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBNMT.2009.5348508

Filename

5348508