Title :
Ultrafast all-optical serial-to-parallel conversion for optical header recognition
Author :
Takahashi, Ryo ; Suzuki, Hiroyuki
Author_Institution :
NTT Photonics Labs., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
A novel all-optical serial-to-parallel conversion scheme for high-speed header recognition is proposed using surface-reflection all-optical switches. 400-Gb/s, 6-bit optical packet was converted to parallel slow electrical pulses with a contrast ratio of more than 10 dB.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; high-speed optical techniques; optical switches; quantum well lasers; 400 Gbit/s; 6 bit; CMOS electronics circuits; DBR; InGaAs-InAlAs:Be; MQW; all-optical serial-to-parallel conversion; contrast ratio; high-speed photonic packet switching networks; optical packet; parallel slow electrical pulses; surface-reflection all-optical switches; ultrafast all-optical conversion; High speed optical techniques; Optical packet switching; Optical polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Optical reflection; Optical switches; Photonics; Quantum well devices; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989080
