Optically controlled 2×2 switching cell for packet-switched networks

Author

Lee, C.C. ; Lui, L. F K ; Xu, Lixin ; Wai, P.K.A. ; Tam, H.Y. ; Demokan, M.S.

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. Centre & Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrated a 10 Gb/s optically controlled 2times2 switching cell which can be used to construct NtimesN all-optical switches for all-optical packet-switched networks. All-optical packet-switching is performed based on a single optical control bit.

Keywords

optical control; optical fibre networks; optical switches; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network routing; SOA; all-optical header processing; all-optical switches; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; optical control bit; optical routers; optically controlled switching cell; packet-switched networks; semiconductor optical amplifier; switching fabric; High speed optical techniques; Optical bistability; Optical control; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical pulse generation; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Packet switching; Pulse modulation; (140.3520) Lasers, injection-locked; (190.1450) Bistability; (230.1150) All-optical devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628460

Filename

4628460