Optical packet switch sub-system with label processing and monolithically integrated InP optical switch

Author

Calabretta, N. ; Soganci, I.M. ; Tanemura, T. ; Wang, W. ; Raz, O. ; Higuchi, K. ; Williams, K.A. ; de Vries, T.J. ; Nakano, Y. ; Dorren, H.J.S.

Author_Institution

COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2010

Firstpage

107

Lastpage

108

Abstract

We demonstrate a 1 Ã— 16 optical packet switch sub-system for 160 Gbps RZ-OOK and 12 Ã— 10 Gbps multi-wavelength DPSK packets. We show error-free operation with maximum penalties of 0.7 dB for 160 Gbps RZ-OOK and 0.6 dB for multi-wavelength DPSK packets.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; amplitude shift keying; differential phase shift keying; electro-optical modulation; electro-optical switches; indium compounds; integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical losses; 1x16 optical packet switch sub-system; InP; RZ-OOK packets; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 120 Gbit/s; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; bit-rate transparency; error-free operation; insertion loss; monolithically integrated optical switch; multiwavelength DPSK packets; optical label processing; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Indium phosphide; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical switches; Payloads;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Majorca

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5240-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5241-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421952

Filename

5421952