Title :
1×4 Optical packet switching of variable length 640 Gbit/s data packets using in-band optical notch-filter labeling
Author :
Medhin, Ashenafi K. ; Kamchevska, Valerija ; Galili, Michael ; Oxenlowe, Leif K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Photonics Eng., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Abstract :
We experimentally perform 1×4 optical packet switching of variable length 640 Gbit/s OTDM data packets using in-band notch-filter labeling with only 2.7-dB penalty. Up to 8 notches are employed to demonstrate scalability of the labeling scheme to 1×256 switching operation.
Keywords :
notch filters; optical filters; optical switches; packet switching; OTDM data packets; bit rate 640 Gbit/s; in-band optical notch-filter labeling; labeling scheme; optical packet switching; Bit error rate; Labeling; Multiplexing; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Switching circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964067
