Title :
All-optical packet switch at data-rate beyond 160 Gb/s
Author :
Calabretta, Nicola ; Jung, Hyun-Do ; Tangdiongga, Eduward ; Koonen, Ton ; Dorren, Harm
Author_Institution :
COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
fDate :
June 28 2009-July 2 2009
Abstract :
Two different paradigms to realize a scalable all-optical packet switch with label swapping will be presented. All the functions required for switching the packets are based on all-optical signal processing without any electronic control. This allows very low latency and potential photonic integration of the systems. We report for both techniques experimental results showing the routing operation of the 160 Gb/s packets and beyond. We will discuss and compare both techniques in term of devices and bit-rate scalability, latency, power consumption, power penalty performance and cascadability as key parameters for the realization of an all-optical packet switch.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical information processing; optical switches; packet switching; all-optical signal processing; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit-rate scalability; data-rate; label swapping technique; photonic integration; power consumption; power penalty performance; scalable all-optical packet switch; Delay; High speed optical techniques; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Packet switching; Payloads; Routing; Scalability; label processor; label rewriter; label swapping; optical packet switching; optical signal processing; semiconductor optical amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Azores
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4825-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4827-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185188
