Dynamic power considerations in a complete 12 × 12 optical packet switching network

Author

Small, Benjamin A. ; Kato, Tatsuya ; Bergman, Keren

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

Volume

17

Issue

11

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2472

Lastpage

2474

Abstract

The dynamic optical power characteristics of an implemented 12-port optical packet switching network are measured for multiple-wavelength packets with 16 payload wavelengths and five routing header wavelengths. The system demonstrates an average dynamic optical power range of approximately 6.7 dB at the 10^-12 bit-error-rate (BER) threshold, and 8.2 dB at 10^-9 BER. These measurements which investigate how the system affects the encoded optical packets are discussed as metrics for network scalability and robustness.

Keywords

error statistics; optical fibre networks; packet switching; photonic switching systems; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; BER; bit-error-rate; dynamic power; multiple-wavelength packets; optical packet switching network; routing header wavelengths; Bit error rate; Dynamic range; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Payloads; Power measurement; Robustness; Scalability; Wavelength measurement; Wavelength routing; Interconnection networks; packet switching; photonic switching systems; wavelength-division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.858142

Filename

1522357