Optical DRAMS using refreshable WDM loop memories

Author

Chai, Y. ; Chen, J.H. ; Zhao, X.J. ; Zhang, J.P. ; Fan, J.Y. ; Choa, F.S. ; Lin, W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

20-24 Sep 1998

Firstpage

171

Abstract

An optical DRAM, which can store information in its optical format for a long term, is demonstrated with a refreshable WDM loop memory. Optical data can be written and read at very high speed. A dynamically refreshable optical loop memory is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. With such technique, optical packet in the fiber loop can be stored as long as the time the system requires. It will be beneficial to the high capacity all optical network and high throughput data storage and retrieval applications

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical storage; packet switching; random-access storage; wavelength division multiplexing; data retrieval applications; high capacity all optical network; high throughput data storage; optical DRAMS; optical format; refreshable WDM loop memories; refreshable WDM loop memory; store information; All-optical networks; Asynchronous transfer mode; Integrated optics; Optical buffering; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical packet switching; Random access memory; Throughput; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

84-89900-14-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.1998.732488

Filename

732488