Routing in an Optical Local Area Network using Wavelength Conversion

Author

Jessop, Clifford N. ; Jenkins, R. Brian ; Voigt, Robert J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., US Naval Acad., Annapolis, MD

fYear

2006

fDate

12-14 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

25

Abstract

This project investigates the use of all-optical wavelength conversion to perform routing in a fiber optic local area network (LAN). In particular, the goal is to implement a scalable LAN that demonstrates reconfigurability and transparency, with minimal loss and bounded latency, enabling real time performance in the harsh conditions of the avionics environment. In these experiments, latency was reduced by over 55% when compared to an optical-electrical-optical (O-E-O) conversion technique, with the possibility for 75% reduction by using integrated optics (Jessop and Clifford, 2006)

Keywords

optical fibre LAN; telecommunication network routing; fiber optic local area network; optical electrical optical conversion; optical local area network routing; reconfigurability; scalable LAN; transparency; wavelength conversion; Delay; Integrated optics; Local area networks; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical losses; Optical wavelength conversion; Performance loss; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Avionics Fiber-Optics and Photonics, 2006. IEEE Conference

Conference_Location

Annapolis, MD

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0408-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AVFOP.2006.1707482

Filename

1707482