Title :
Error-free 1,001-hop Cascaded Operation of an Optical-label Switching Router with Optical 3R Regeneration
Author :
Pan, Zhong ; Zhu, Zuqing ; Funabashi, Masaki ; Yang, Haijun ; Yoo, S.J.B.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Abstract :
This paper demonstrates cascaded 1,001-hop operation of an optical-label switching router. The optical 3R regeneration using wavelength conversion and synchronous modulation leads to negligible hop-to-hop penalty and stabilized Q-factor towards large hop numbers.
Keywords :
Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters;
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.2006.4801124
