Title :
Performance of an optical backplane bus for switch interconnection
Author :
Robinson, A. ; O´Mahony, M.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
fDate :
8/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The employment of an optical bus for the interconnection network of a switching system is investigated and the configuration of these interconnections is discussed. Using power budget analysis, it is shown that to maximise the number of positions for an amplified bus configuration, the number of taps between the amplifiers must be small, or amplification must be distributed within the bus. Crosstalk within cascaded bus arrays is examined and an ≈634 Gbits/s configuration of the MONET architecture is shown to be feasible
Keywords :
integrated optoelectronics; multiprocessor interconnection networks; optical crosstalk; optical interconnections; photonic switching systems; system buses; MONET architecture; amplified bus configuration; cascaded bus arrays; crosstalk; interconnection network; optical backplane bus; optical switch interconnection; photonic switching systems; power budget analysis;
Journal_Title :
Optoelectronics, IEE Proceedings -
DOI :
10.1049/ip-opt:19960654
