All-optical packet header recognition and switching in a reconfigurable network using fiber Bragg gratings for time-to-wavelength mapping and decoding

Author

Cardakli, M.C. ; Lee, S. ; Willner, A.E. ; Grubsky, V. ; Starodubov, D. ; Feinberg, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

21-26 Feb. 1999

Firstpage

171

Abstract

We demonstrate reconfigurable all-optical header recognition and routing of a 2.5-Gbit/s packet stream using time-to-wavelength mapping with a fiber Bragg grating array correlation decoding. We achieve penalty-free routing using a 1.6-ns guard time. This technique would be useful to enable high-speed all-optical packet switching nodes.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; decoding; high-speed optical techniques; optical arrays; optical correlation; optical fibre networks; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; 1.6 ns; 2.5 Gbit/s; Gbit/s packet stream; all-optical packet header recognition; all-optical packet header switching; decoding; fiber Bragg grating array correlation decoding; fiber Bragg gratings; high-speed all-optical packet switching nodes; ns guard time; penalty-free routing; reconfigurable network; time-to-wavelength mapping; Bragg gratings; Decoding; Fiber gratings; High speed optical techniques; Intelligent networks; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical sensors; Packet switching; Routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-582-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1999.768099

Filename

768099