Demonstration of 40-Gb/s Packet Routing Using All-Optical Header Processing

Author

Wang, Jade P. ; Robinson, Bryan S. ; Hamilton, Scott A. ; Ippen, Erich P.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA

Volume

18

Issue

21

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2275

Lastpage

2277

Abstract

We show simultaneous forwarding of two optical packets through a 2times2 spatial switch at 40 Gb/s using only two ultrafast nonlinear interferometers. This demonstrates a scalable all-optical header processing architecture applicable for general network topologies and can lead to reduced size, weight, and power requirements as compared with electronic solutions. Clear open eye diagrams were observed and a packet error rate of 10^-6, comparable with current electronic router error rates, was measured for the entire system

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; light interferometers; optical fibre communication; optical switches; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; 40 Gbit/s; all-optical header processing; packet error rate; packet routing; spatial switch; ultrafast nonlinear interferometers; Current measurement; Error analysis; Interferometers; Network topology; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Routing; Ultrafast optics; Optical fiber communication; ultrafast optical switching;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.884727

Filename

1715399