Title :
Experimental demonstration of multicast in an optical-label switching router with mixed data rates of 10 Gb/s and 2.5 Gb/s
Author :
Pan, Zhong ; Yang, Haijun ; Funabashi, Masaki ; Zhu, Zuqing ; Yoo, S. J Ben
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Davis, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper experimentally demonstrates multicast packet forwarding in an optical-label switching router with mixed data rates of 10 Gb/s and 2.5 Gb/s. The demonstration employs multi-wavelength conversion in integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer with semiconductor optical amplifiers.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optoelectronics; multicast communication; optical communication equipment; optical switches; optical wavelength conversion; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network routing; 10 Gbit/s; 2.5 Gbit/s; integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer; mixed data rates; multicast packet forwarding; multiwavelength conversion; optical-label switching router; semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
