Optical signal processing for optical packet switching networks

Author

Blumenthal, Daniel J. ; Bowers, John E. ; Rau, Lavanya ; Chou, Hsu-Feng ; Rangarajan, Suresh ; Wang, Wei ; Poulsen, Henrik N.

Author_Institution

California Univ., CA, USA

Volume

41

Issue

2

fYear

2003

fDate

2/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Abstract

Optical packet switching promises to bring the flexibility and efficiency of the Internet to transparent optical networking with bit rates extending beyond that currently available with electronic router technologies. New optical signal processing techniques have been demonstrated that enable routing at bit rates from 10 Gb/s to beyond 40 Gb/s. We review these signal processing techniques and how all-optical-wavelength converter technology can be used to implement packet switching functions. Specific approaches that utilize-ultra-fast all-optical nonlinear fiber wavelength converters and monolithically integrated optical wavelength converters are discussed and research results presented.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical fibre networks; optical information processing; optical wavelength conversion; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; 10 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; Internet; all-optical nonlinear fiber wavelength converters; bit rates; monolithically integrated optical wavelength converters; optical packet switching networks; optical signal processing; research results; transparent optical networking; ultra-fast wavelength converters; Bit rate; Fiber nonlinear optics; IP networks; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Routing; Switching converters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2003.1179494

Filename

1179494