Experimental demonstration of cascaded transmission and all-optical label swapping of orthogonal IM/FSK labelled signal

Author

Chi, Nan ; Zhang, Jianfeng ; Holm-Nielsen, P.V. ; Xu, Lin ; Monroy, I.T. ; Peucheret, C. ; Yvind, K. ; Christiansen, L.J. ; Jeppesen, P.

Author_Institution

COM, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

39

Issue

8

fYear

2003

fDate

4/17/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

676

Lastpage

678

Abstract

A network node is demonstrated with two-hop transmission and all-optical label swapping. It is based on a Mach-Zehnder semiconductor optical amplifier interferometer and electroabsorption modulator of a two-level optically labelled signal using an orthogonal IM/FSK modulation format with an overall power penalty of less than 2 dB.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; error statistics; frequency hop communication; frequency shift keying; optical fibre networks; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network routing; BER; Mach-Zehnder SOA interferometer; all-optical label swapping; all-optical packet switched network; bit error rate; cascaded transmission; electroabsorption modulator; intensity modulation; network node; orthogonal IM/FSK labelled signal; packet forwarding functions; packet routing functions; semiconductor optical amplifier interferometer; two-hop transmission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:20030425

Filename

1197998