Rapidly switching all-optical packet routing system with optical-label swapping incorporating tunable wavelength conversion and a uniform-loss cyclic frequency AWGR

2002; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 14; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/lpt.2002.1022021

ISSN

1941-0174

Autores

S. J. Ben Yoo, Hyuek Jae Lee, Zhong Pan, Jing Cao, Z. Yanda, K. Okamoto, S. Kamei,

Tópico(s)

Advanced Optical Network Technologies

Resumo

This letter discusses an experimental demonstration of a rapidly switching all-optical packet routing system with optical-label switching and all-optical label-swapping capabilities. The optical routing system optically extracts the subcarrier optical-label content, compares it against the forwarding table, makes packet forwarding and label-swapping decisions, and forward the packet to the desired output with a newly updated subcarrier optical label. The packet switching fabric included a combination of rapidly tunable wavelength conversion and a uniform-loss cyclic frequency 8/spl times/8 arrayed waveguide grating router. The packet routing system achieved 600-ps switching time and 250-ns forwarding decision time. Accumulated packet bit-error-rate measurements confirm the successful error-free packet routing with all-optical label-swapping.

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