Cascadability of Optical Packet-Switching Nodes Based on (R)SOA Devices

Author

de Valicourt, G. ; Simonneau, Christian ; Ghazisaeidi, Amirhossein ; Brenot, Romain ; Antona, Jean-Christophe ; Bigo, S.

Author_Institution

WDM Dynamic Networks Dept., Alcatel-Lucent, Nozay, France

Volume

25

Issue

24

fYear

2013

fDate

Dec.15, 2013

Firstpage

2389

Lastpage

2392

Abstract

We evaluate the benefits and limitations of semi-conductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and reflective SOAs, when used as logic gates in a 10 Gbit/s per wavelength WDM packet-switched network. We compare three components with different internal structures and provide estimation of the maximum number of cascaded packet-blocker-based nodes.

Keywords

optical logic; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM packet-switched network; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cascaded packet-blocker-based nodes; logic gates; optical packet-switching node cascadability; reflective SOA devices; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical distortion; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical packet switching; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifier; WDM packet-switched network; packet add/drop multiplexer; packet reflective switch; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2013.2285485

Filename

6632879