IST-LASAGNE: towards all-optical label swapping employing optical logic gates and optical flip-flops

Author

Ramos, F. ; Kehayas, E. ; Martinez, J.M. ; Clavero, R. ; Marti, J. ; Stampoulidis, L. ; Tsiokos, D. ; Avramopoulos, H. ; Zhang, J. ; Holm-Nielsen, P.V. ; Chi, N. ; Jeppesen, P. ; Yan, N. ; Monroy, I. Tafur ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Hill, M.T. ; Liu, Y. ; Dorren,

Author_Institution

Nanophotonics Technol. Center, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Volume

23

Issue

10

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2993

Lastpage

3011

Abstract

The Information Society Technologies-all-optical LAbel SwApping employing optical logic Gates in NEtwork nodes (IST-LASAGNE) project aims at designing and implementing the first, modular, scalable, and truly all-optical photonic router capable of operating at 40 Gb/s. The results of the first project year are presented in this paper, with emphasis on the implementation of network node functionalities employing optical logic gates and optical flip-flops, as well as the definition of the network architecture and migration scenarios.

Keywords

flip-flops; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical logic; telecommunication network routing; 40 Gbit/s; IST-LASAGNE; all-optical label swapping; migration scenarios; network architecture; network node functionalities; optical flip-flops; optical logic gates; photonic router; Flip-flops; Logic gates; Multiprotocol label switching; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Routing; Ultrafast optics; All-optical label swapping; Mach–Zehnder interferometer; all-optical logic gates; all-optical signal processing; optical flip-flops; optical packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifier; ultrafast nonlinear interferometer;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.855714

Filename

1522391