A wide-band photonic packet injection control module for optical packet switching routers

Author

Shacham, Assaf ; Small, Benjamin A. ; Bergman, Keren

Author_Institution

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

Volume

17

Issue

12

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2778

Lastpage

2780

Abstract

The implementation of a novel photonic injection control module that mediates packet injection into optical packet switching (OPS) routers is reported. Responding to a busy signal received from the OPS router, the module buffers the multiple-wavelength optical packets on a fiber delay line until a slot becomes available. The functionality of the module and its interoperability with a data vortex OPS router are demonstrated. Error-free (bit-error rate <10^-12) routing of 80-Gb/s payload (eight wavelength-division multiplexing ×10 Gb/s) is confirmed.

Keywords

error statistics; modules; optical delay lines; optical fibre communication; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 80 Gbit/s; bit-error rate; fiber delay line; interoperability; optical packet switching routers; photonic packet injection control module; wavelength-division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Delay lines; Optical buffering; Optical control; Optical packet switching; Optical vortices; Payloads; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength routing; Wideband; Multiprocessor interconnection; optical interconnections; optical packet switching (OPS); photonic switching systems; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.859165

Filename

1542221