• DocumentCode
    450196
  • Title

    All-optical asynchronous variable-length optically labelled 40 Gbps packet switch

  • Author

    Wolfson, D. ; Lal, V. ; Masanovic, M. ; Poulsen, H.N. ; Coldren, C. ; Epps, G. ; Civello, D. ; Donner, P. ; Blumenthal, D.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • Volume
    6
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    25-29 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    49
  • Abstract
    We describe the operation of a packet switch that dynamically forwards 40 Gbps optical packets based on asynchronously recovered WGbps optical headers using highly-integrated InP photonic circuits. Results of both Layer 1 and Layer 2 performance measurements are presented.
  • Keywords
    indium compounds; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical switches; packet switching; all-optical asynchronous variable-length packet switch; highly-integrated InP photonic circuits; optical headers; optically labelled packet switch;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    IET
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-543-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1584172