Title :
An experimental photonic time slot interchanger using semiconductor laser amplifiers and fibre delay lines
Author :
Yao, J. ; Barnsley, P. ; Walker, N. ; O´Mahony, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
Abstract :
The authors have demonstrated a four channel photonic time slot interchange (TSI) experimental system working at 2.5 Gbit/s data rate. The experimental system is based on a parallel switch fabric using four semiconductor laser amplifiers and four fibre delay lines. The experimental results show good switching performance: only 0.2 dB BER penalty was observed for straight-through operation and 0.7 dB penalty for fully interchanged time slots
Keywords :
delay lines; optical fibres; optical switches; semiconductor lasers; 2.5 Gbit/s; BER; fibre delay lines; high speed optical switching; parallel switch fabric; photonic time slot interchanger; semiconductor laser amplifiers; switching performance;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Switching, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
