A novel self-synchronization scheme for all-optical packet networks

Author

Huang, Xuetian ; Ye, Peida ; Zhang, Min ; Wang, Lin

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Opt. Commun. & Lightwave Technol., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., China

Volume

17

Issue

3

fYear

2005

fDate

3/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

645

Lastpage

647

Abstract

A novel self-synchronization scheme utilizing a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) monolithically integrated with a delay interferometer (DI) is proposed and numerically demonstrated in this letter. The proposed scheme is based on the fast gain saturation and relatively slow gain recovery of the SOA. With the properly chosen DI delay time, input pulsewidth, and SOA carrier lifetime, input pulse energies as low as 100 fJ can be utilized to achieve a larger than 10-dB contrast ratio of the first to the other pulses of a transmitted packet.

Keywords

carrier lifetime; light interferometers; optical fibre networks; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; synchronisation; SOA; all-optical packet networks; carrier lifetime; delay interferometer; delay time; gain recovery; gain saturation; pulsewidth; self-synchronization; semiconductor optical amplifier; Charge carrier lifetime; Clocks; Couplers; Delay effects; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Optical fiber communication; optical signal processing; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.842392

Filename

1396042