All-Optical and Optoelectronic Serial-to-Parallel Conversion of High-Speed, Asynchronous Optical Packets

Author

Urata, Ryohei ; Takahashi, Ryo ; Yasui, Takako ; Suemitsu, Tetsuya ; Nakahara, Tatsushi ; Suzuki, Hiroyuki

Author_Institution

NTT Photonics Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

747

Lastpage

748

Abstract

In this paper, we review two approaches for serial-to-parallel conversion of asynchronous burst preamble-free optical packets which alleviate these issues in a compact, low-power form. The first is an optoelectronic approach targeted for 10-Gb/s to >40-Gb/s packets, based on an optically clocked transistor array (OCTA). SPC and parallel-to-serial conversion (PSC) (i.e., multiplexing), as well as generation of the clock required for both conversion functions, are achieved with a single, low-power OEIC chip. The second is an all-optical approach that employs optical switching by means of differential spin excitation, for SPC of 40-Gb/s to 1-Tb/s optical packets. Combined with CMOS, these interfaces enable a high-performance, highly scalable approach to optical packet switching

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optoelectronics; optical switches; packet switching; CMOS; OEIC chip; all-optical approach; asynchronous optical packets; clock generation; differential spin excitation; multiplexing; optical clocked transistor array; optical switching; optoelectronic serial-to-parallel conversion; parallel-to-serial conversion; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering; Optical harmonic generation; Optical mixing; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9555-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2006.278965

Filename

4054400