Title :
A Multi-Hop Optical Packet Switching Demonstration Employing All-Optical Grating Based Header Generation and Recognition
Author :
Thomsen, B.C. ; Teh, P.C. ; Ibsen, M. ; Lee, J.H. ; Richardson, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectronics Res. Centre, Southampton Univ.
Abstract :
We present an optical packet switching system based on header recognition using 255 bit, 320 Gbit/s superstructured fiber Bragg gratings. Two hop operation, with header reuse, of a packet add/drop node that may be configured for packet relabeling is demonstrated
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; packet switching; 255 bit; 320 Gbit/s; header recognition; multihop optical packet switching; packet add/drop node; packet relabeling; superstructured fiber Bragg gratings;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
87-90974-63-8
