All-Optical Packet-Switching Decoder Design and Demonstration at 10 Gb/s

Author

Teimoori, Hassan ; Topomondzo, Joseph Désiré ; Ware, Cédric ; Gabet, Renaud ; Erasme, Didier

Author_Institution

Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommun., Paris

Volume

19

Issue

10

fYear

2007

fDate

5/15/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

738

Lastpage

740

Abstract

A 3 times 8 all-optical decoder based on cross-polarization modulation in semiconductor optical amplifiers is demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge. The design requires a single active optical device per output. Experimental results are shown for return-to-zero modulated 10-Gb/s signals. Applications include label processing in optical packet switched optical networks

Keywords

decoding; light polarisation; logic gates; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical logic; optical modulation; optical switches; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 10 Gbit/s; active optical device; all-optical decoder; all-optical packet-switching; cross-polarization modulation; decoder design; label processing; optical logic gate; optical network; return-to-zero modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Decoding; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical packet switching; Optical refraction; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Polarization; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; All-optical decoder; cross-polarization modulation (XPolM); optical logic gate; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.895444

Filename

4156239