• DocumentCode
    1198876
  • Title

    Multiple recirculations through Crosspoint switch fabric for recirculating optical buffering

  • Author

    Geldenhuys, R. ; Chi, N. ; Monroy, I. Tafur ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Dorren, H.J.S. ; Leuschner, F.W. ; Khoe, G.D. ; Yu, S. ; Wang, Z.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr., Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa
  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    20
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    1136
  • Lastpage
    1138
  • Abstract
    Multiple recirculations through an optical buffer using a fast-reconfigurable AVC based Crosspoint switch matrix is shown. A 10 Gbit/s payload is used and a small power penalty for each additional recirculation, up to 10 recirculations, is achieved.
  • Keywords
    buffer storage; optical fibre networks; optical switches; packet switching; photonic switching systems; 10 Gbit/s; crosspoint switch fabric; crosspoint switch matrix; multiple recirculations; optical buffer; reconfigurable AVC;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20052568
  • Filename
    1522172