Title :
Petabit-per-Second Routers: Case for All-Optical over Electronic Implementation
Author :
Yoo, S.J.B. ; Yang, Haijun
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California Davis, Davis
Abstract :
This paper investigates merits and challenges of all-optical routers. All-optical routers can exploit the wavelength domain not available in electronic routers to overcome the lack of optical buffers, and to realize compact ultralow power systems.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical repeaters; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; all-optical routers; electronic routers; optical buffers; optical packet switchng; optical regeneration; wavelength domain; Fabrics; High speed optical techniques; Integrated optics; Internet; Optical buffering; Optical fiber networks; Optical interferometry; Optical packet switching; Optical wavelength conversion; Repeaters;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-831-4
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2007.4348668
