Title :
Demonstration of wideband optical packet buffering with PLZT optical switch
Author :
Furukawa, Hideaki ; Wada, Naoya ; Harai, Hiroaki ; Takezawa, Naganori ; Nashimoto, Keiichi ; Miyazaki, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei
Abstract :
We demonstrate optical fiber-delay-line buffers with 1times8 PLZT optical switches and a parallel pipeline buffer manager. Error-free buffering (bit-error-rate <10-9) has been achieved for 640 (64-wavelength times 10) Gbit/s wide-colored optical packets.
Keywords :
error statistics; optical delay lines; optical switches; packet switching; PLZT; PLZT optical switch; bit error rate; bit rate 640 Gbit/s; optical fiber-delay-line buffers; parallel pipeline buffer manager; plomb lanthanum zirconate titanate optical switches; wide-colored optical packets; wideband optical packet buffering; High speed optical techniques; Optical buffering; Optical fiber polarization; Optical packet switching; Optical refraction; Optical switches; Optical variables control; Packet switching; Pipelines; Wideband; PLZT switch; optical buffer; optical packet switching; parallel pipeline buffer manager;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Internet, 2008. COIN 2008. 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-4-88552-230-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-4-88552-229-1
