Optical packet switching and buffering using low polarization dependent optical switches

Author

Shinada, Satoshi ; Furukawa, Hideaki ; Wada, Naoya

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A data plane of our optical packet switch (OPS) system has all-optical data paths, which consist of optical switches and optical buffers. Using PLZT electro-optical switches with low polarization dependent loss and fiber delay lines in the data plane, polarization-multiplexed optical packets or long-distance transmitted packets with time-varying polarization could be handled. In this paper, we present demonstrations of optical packet switching and buffering for 2.56 Tbit/s dual-polarization DWDM/DQPSK optical packets and 100-km transmitted optical packets.

Keywords

delay lines; electro-optical devices; multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical switches; packet switching; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; DQPSK; DWDM; OPS; PLZT; electro-optical switches; fiber delay lines; long-distance transmitted packets; optical buffers; optical packet switching; polarization-multiplexed optical packets; Integrated optics; Optical buffering; Optical fibers; Optical packet switching; Optical polarization; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; PLZT optical switch; fiber delay line; optical buffer; optical packet switch;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254382

Filename

6254382