Title :
An All-Optical Time-Slot Interchange Architecture
Author :
Zarris, G. ; Sadeghioon, L.M. ; Guild, K.M. ; Simeonidou, D. ; O´Mahony, M. ; Leburn, C.G. ; Brown, C.T.A. ; Sibbett, W. ; Jung, Hyun-Do ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Monroy, I.T.
Author_Institution :
Photonic Networks Research Laboratory, Electronic Systems Engineering Dept., University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK, gzarris@essex.ac.uk
Abstract :
A novel, bit-rate scaleable and transparent Time-Slot Interchange architecture is proposed and experimental results demonstrate error-free performance at 40Gbit/s. The proposed architecture can be used in an OTDM-based optical cross-connect node.
Keywords :
Communication switching; Delay lines; Laboratories; Optical pulse generation; Optical wavelength conversion; Physics; Pulse amplifiers; Space technology; Switches; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4800928
