Implementation of an All-Optical Time-Slot-Interchanger Architecture

Author

Zouraraki, O. ; Yiannopoulos, K. ; Zakynthinos, P. ; Petrantonakis, D. ; Varvarigos, E. ; Poustie, A. ; Maxwell, G. ; Avramopoulos, H.

Author_Institution

Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens

Volume

19

Issue

17

fYear

2007

Firstpage

1307

Lastpage

1309

Abstract

We demonstrate a wavelength-converter-based optical time-slot-interchanger. It consists of three cascaded programmable delay stages and employs the first hybrid integrated, on a chip, quadruple array of semiconductor optical amplifier Mach-Zehnder interferometer switches. It exhibits error-free operation with 10-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero packets and a power penalty of 1.8 dB.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optoelectronics; optical switches; packet switching; programmable logic arrays; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Mach-Zehnder interferometer switches; all-optical time-slot- interchanger architecture; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; cascaded programmable delay stages; error-free operation; nonreturn-to-zero packets; power penalty; quadruple array; semiconductor optical amplifier; wavelength converter; Delay; Feedforward systems; High speed optical techniques; Optical arrays; Optical buffering; Optical feedback; Optical interferometry; Optical switches; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI); optical buffering; time-slot interchanger;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.902331

Filename

4287016