Development of a 640-Gbit∕s∕port Optical Packet Switch Prototype Based on Wide-Colored Optical Packet Technology

Author

Furukawa, Hideaki ; Wada, Naoya ; Harai, Hiroaki ; Miyazaki, Tetsuya

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

1

Issue

3

fYear

2009

fDate

8/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Abstract

We developed, for the first time to our knowledge, a 640-Gbit/s/port optical packet switch prototype consisting of multiple optical label processors, polarization-independent plomb lanthanum zirconate titanate waveguide optical switches, optical fiber-delay-line buffers, and a parallel pipeline buffer manager. We achieved the error-free switching and buffering operation with bit error rates of less than 10-9 for 640 (64 wavelengths times10) Gbit/s wide-colored optical packets by the prototype. This demonstration shows the potential of high performance per energy of an optical packet switch.

Keywords

lanthanum compounds; lead compounds; optical delay lines; optical fibre communication; optical switches; optical waveguides; packet switching; PbLaZrO₃TiO₃; bit error rates; error-free switching; multiple optical label processors; optical fiber-delay-line buffers; optical packet switch; parallel pipeline buffer manager; waveguide optical switches; Knowledge management; Lanthanum; Optical buffering; Optical fiber polarization; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Pipelines; Prototypes; Titanium compounds; Multiple optical label processor; Optical buffer; Optical packet switching; Parallel pipeline buffer manager; Plomb lanthanum zirconate titanate optical switch; WDM-based optical packet;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Optical Communications and Networking, IEEE/OSA Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0620

Type

jour

DOI

10.1364/JOCN.1.000B30

Filename

5207092