Demonstration of multi-wavelength all-optical header recognition using a PPLN and optical correlators

Author

Gurkan, D. ; Hauer, M.C. ; Sahin, A.B. ; Pan, Z. ; Lee, S. ; Willner, A.E. ; Parameswaran, K.R. ; Fejer, M.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

312

Abstract

We demonstrate multi-wavelength all-optical packet header recognition using a periodically-poled lithium niobate (PPLN) device and fiber Bragg grating arrays as optical correlators. The number of header recognition modules required in an optical cross-connect is drastically decreased by our method. We simultaneously recognize the header bits on two 2.5 Gbit/s WDM channels and route them to different output ports of a 2×2 cross-connect.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; lithium compounds; optical arrays; optical correlation; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; LiNbO₃; WDM; all-optical packet header recognition; fiber Bragg grating arrays; optical correlators; optical cross-connect; periodically-poled lithium niobate device; Correlators; Nonlinear optics; Optical arrays; Optical crosstalk; Optical devices; Optical packet switching; Optical pumping; Optical switches; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989643

Filename

989643