Title :
Cascading switching nodes in data vortex optical packet interconnection network
Author :
Lu, W. ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, O. ; Small, B.A. ; Bergman, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
fDate :
7/8/2004 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Cascading of semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) based switching nodes has been studied experimentally in a re-circulating loop test-bed of the data vortex packet interconnection network. The experimental results show that the signal bit-error-rates can still exceed 10-9 after 72 node hops, demonstrating the physical layer scalability of the data vortex network.
Keywords :
optical communication; packet switching; photonic switching systems; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; cascading switching nodes; data vortex optical packet interconnection network; physical layer scalability; recirculating loop test bed; semiconductor optical amplifier; signal bit error rate;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20040586
