An optical packet compressor based on a fiber delay loop

Author

Toda, Hiroyuki ; Nakada, Fumitoshi ; Suzuki, Maoki ; Hasegawa, Akira

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan

Volume

12

Issue

6

fYear

2000

fDate

6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

708

Lastpage

710

Abstract

We propose an optical packet compressor based on a fiber delay loop and demonstrate its feasibility for an all optical inter-local area network (LAN) TDM network. The proposed scheme requires only a few devices for compression operation and only one delay line to obtain the desired compression ratio. The calculated optical signal-to-noise ratio of the compressed packet with 1-nm bandwidth is more than 20 dB when the number of the compressed bits is less than 100. Compression of 25-MHz 10-bit packet to 5 GHz is experimentally demonstrated.

Keywords

optical delay lines; optical fibre LAN; optical noise; optical pulse compression; time division multiplexing; 10-bit packet; 5 GHz; LAN; TDRI network; all optical inter-LAN TDM network; all optical inter-local area network; compressed packet; compression operation; delay line; desired compression ratio; fiber delay loop; optical packet compressor; optical signal-to-noise ratio; Bit rate; Delay lines; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.849092

Filename

849092